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# fretted

«fretted» in Mova's school dictionary: **To worry and be anxious about something** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (fret, frets, fretted, fretting)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To worry and be anxious about something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fretted/#m1)

2) (of a carving) Decorated with a pattern of small crossing lines or shapes, as in «fretted work». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fretted/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

a person who fretted worried a lot; fretted work is carved decoration

### examples

- She fretted about the test all night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fretted/#x1)
- He fretted about his friends. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fretted/#x2)
- The doors had fretted carvings of flowers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fretted/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «fretted» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fretted/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.