Meaning

3 senses

  1. (informal)A burnt fragment; a cinder or crisp.

    The bacon was burned to a frazzle.

  2. (informal)The condition or quality of being frazzled; a frayed end.

    1886–90, John G. Nicolay and John Hay, Abraham Lincoln: A History Gordon had sent word to Lee that he had fought his corps to a frazzle

  3. A messy situation or scene.

More definitions
  • a state of extreme exhaustion

Examples

7 sentences

  1. You seem a little frazzled.

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  2. Tom looks frazzled.

    ruТом выглядит вымотанным.

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  3. My nerves were worn to a frazzle.

    ruНервы у меня были совершенно растрёпаны.

    deIch war mit den Nerven am Ende.

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  4. Don't let all this commotion frazzle your nerves.

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  5. My brain is frazzled.

    deMein Kopf raucht.

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Origin

Originally an East Anglian word. Either from a variant of the now obsolete fazle (“to unra

Originally an East Anglian word. Either from a variant of the now obsolete fazle (“to unravel”), altered due to influence from fray, or from a blend of fazle and fray. fazle comes from earlier fasel, which was inherited from Middle English facelyn (“[of the end of a rope, or of cloth] to unravel”). Middle English facelyn was a verbal derivative of the noun fasylle (“frayed edge”), which was in turn a derivative (with the diminutive suffix -el) of Old English fæs (“fringe, border”), from Proto-West Germanic *fas, from Proto-Germanic *fasōn.

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Forms

plural: frazzles

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
fraughtfrayfreakB2freaking
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