Definition of Frazzled

1. Verb. (past of frazzle) ¹

2. Adjective. frayed at the edges ¹

3. Adjective. stressed and exhausted either physically or emotionally ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Frazzled

1. frazzle [v] - See also: frazzle

Lexicographical Neighbors of Frazzled

frautages
fraxin
fraxinella
fraxinellas
fraxinus
fray
frayed
fraying
frayings
fraynen
frayproof
frays
frazil
frazils
frazzle
frazzled (current term)
frazzledness
frazzles
frazzling
freak accident
freak accidents
freak flag
freak of nature
freak out
freak shows
freaked
freakeries
freakery

Literary usage of Frazzled

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Charles Godfrey Leland (1889)
"frazzled out (American), used in the Southern States. Frayed, " frizzled," or worn out. " Bimeby," continued the old man, "de switches dey got ..."

2. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"(NED) 1893 One's garments get frazzled in the grass ; one's mind and body... ... Indeed, it seemed to have increased as their nerves became more "frazzled. ..."

3. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1916)
"Still more highly magnified detail of frazzled roof of cavity in another section from same plant; loose hyphae of fundamental ..."

4. Putnam's Magazine (1909)
""I 'm all frazzled out," she apologized. "Mrs. Lindsey and me has been up with him ... It 's so dark, and I 'm sort of—frazzled." Her voice was very weary. ..."

5. Putnam's Magazine (1909)
""I 'm all frazzled out," she apologized. "Mrs. Lindsey and me has been up with him ... It 's so dark, and I 'm sort of—frazzled." Her voice was very weary. ..."

6. Gardening (1905)
"And don't they look frazzled out today?" "frazzled," repeated the aristocratic French Chatenay rose. "I wish you wouldn't persist in using your atrocious ..."

7. The Texas Vendetta, Or, The Sutton-Taylor Feud by Victor M. Rose (1880)
"... what I suppose to be a gun-shot wound, from the fact that the hole was so large and frazzled. His coat at the hole was badly powder burnt. ..."

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