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fraying

verb as in shred, come apart

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Now, the UK is joining the fray, with ambitious plans for a post-Brexit “Global Britain” that has stronger ties to the Indo-Pacific, where many of its former colonies reside.

From Quartz

However, it’s still an opportunity to assert your brand and highlight what you’re doing to alleviate those currently suffering — a far cry from simply seeking to stay out of the fray.

The rumble of hundreds crowding the steps of the Capitol could be heard blocks away as just as many demonstrators joined the fray as walked away from it.

Though the last four years were often tumultuous and destructive to our nation’s public lands, there was one piece of bipartisan legislation that stood out among the fray.

I moved into the fray and shook hands with Ricky Steamboat and Corporal Kirchner.

From Ozy

Your brother smoked a joint before dinner to calm his fraying nerves.

Lebanon is fraying at the edges, but for now the center holds.

Peterson is wearing a crisp white-and-blue striped shirt and fraying paisley ascot.

Both a social worker and his parents warned the authorities about his fraying mental state.

Some of the breakdown is cultural--a fraying of the basic ties that keep people connected and cared for.

Control cables have a way of wearing out and fraying wherever they pass round pulleys.

In wet weather it is absolutely necessary to turn up the bottoms of your trousers, to keep them from fraying.

The cord used should be of the best hemp, specially made with only two strands of very long fibres to facilitate fraying out.

Top Sergeant Mahans patience stopped fraying, and ripped from end to end.

By the fraying-post the huntsman used to be able to judge if the stag he wished to harbour was a warrantable stag or not.

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On this page you'll find 17 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to fraying, such as: unravel, erode, frazzle, chafe, rub, and rip.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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