be constantly or visibly anxious

she fretted about the cost of groceries

gradually wear away (something) by rubbing or gnawing

the bay's black waves fret the seafront

flow or move in small waves

squelchy clay that fretted between his toes

a state of anxiety

why would anyone get themselves in a fret over something so simple?

a repeating ornamental design of vertical and horizontal lines, such as the Greek key pattern

a device of narrow diagonal bands interlaced through a diamond

decorate with fretwork

a botanically inspired ornamental pattern frets the ceiling

each of a sequence of bars or ridges on the fingerboard of some stringed musical instruments (such as the guitar), used for fixing the positions of the fingers to produce the desired notes

play (a note on a stringed instrument) while pressing the string down against a fret

most people would play this by fretting the G string on the first fret with the first finger

provide (a stringed instrument) with frets

a mist coming in off the sea; a sea fog

a thick fret covers most of the coast