frazzle
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7.4
- noun
- /ˈfræzəl/
- Informal
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- If you're working yourself to a frazzle six days a week, is your underlying need to make money?
Examples
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I wore myself to a frazzle taking care of Mama and the baby at the same time.
Fiction book (1995) -
They had chopped, dug, and run about until they were all worn to a frazzle.
Fiction book (2001) -
Believe it or not, I have worn these fingers to a frazzle.
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I'm just worn to a frazzle.
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My mother never tired of recounting how, as a young man, he would wear himself to a frazzle on the tennis court, always reacting too late and pursuing the ball with all his energy when it was hopelessly out of reach.
Academic text (1999) -
I saw her face, puzzled and concerned, her graying hair all in a frazzle and the glasses that she wore sometimes on the end of her nose a little bit crooked, and I just shook my head again.
Fiction book (2002) -
After several late nights studying for exams, I found myself in a state of complete frazzle.
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The constant juggling of work and family left her in a state of frazzle by the end of the day.
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He felt a sense of frazzle as he struggled to meet the demands of his busy schedule.
Synonyms
78
3.6
Extreme physical or mental tiredness after hard work
19
4.1
A state of extreme tiredness from too much work or stress
2
9.9
Feeling very tired and without energy
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7.4
Extreme mental and physical tiredness after long stress or worry
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4.4
A feeling of being tired after long thinking or stress
A feeling of great weakness and tiredness
Antonyms
How Exhausted
Surface Forms
Etymology
The noun frazzle comes from the same idea as fray — 'worn out' — and names a state of being completely worn out. So if you are in a frazzle, you are exhausted in body or mind.