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fret
verb as in worry, be annoyed
verb as in upset someone
Example Sentences
Like many anxious parents, Beth Spektor spent the last few weeks fretting over how to protect her infant daughter from the first deadly measles outbreak to hit the U.S. in a decade.
Undoubtedly the prospect of millions of Americans fretting about where they can afford to safely go for a summer holiday bothers him not at all.
He fretted as Trump declared Feb. 9 to be Gulf of America Day, saying it was part of restoring “American pride in the history of American greatness,” and as the U.S.
Then you chuck in all that obsessing over being single, and Bridget's fretting over her calorie intake.
But critics fret about safety, cost and nuclear waste – it is a sector with sceptics to convince after the disasters at Chernobyl in Ukraine in 1986 and Fukushima in Japan in 2011.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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