fray
/freɪ/
US pronunciation
American sound/freɪ/
fray
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- 1 syllable
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- One strong syllable
- Vowel
- Short i vowel
- Ending
- Final y vowel sound
US voice -> fray
Myanmar meaning
(n) တိုက်ပွဲ။ (စကားစသည်) စစ်ထိုးပွဲ။ (v) ဖွာသည်။ ဖွာစေသည်။ (စိတ်)တိုသည်။ ကတောက်ကဆ ဖြစ်သည်။
Full entry
fray1 / freÇ / n the fray [sing] (often joc )
တိုက်ပွဲ။ (စကားစသည်) စစ်ထိုးပွဲ။ ready / eager for the fray ❍ enter / join the fray ❍ stand above the political fray.
၁။ ဖွာသည်။ ဖွာစေသည်။ This cotton frays easily. Constant abrasion will fray even the thickest rope. ❍ It's the fashion to wear frayed jeans.
၂။ (စိတ်)တိုသည်။ ကတောက်ကဆ ဖြစ်သည်။ Nerves / Tempers began to fray in the heat.
Our relations with the neighbours have got a bit frayed recently.
More examples
- fray 1 / freÇ / n the fray [sing] ( often joc ) တိုက်ပွဲ။ (စကားစသည်) စစ်ထိုးပွဲ။ ready / eager for the fray
- enter / join the fray
- stand above the political fray. fray 2 / freÇ / v ၁။ ဖွာသည်။ ဖွာစေသည်။ This cotton frays easily. Constant abrasion will fray even the thickest rope.
- It's the fashion to wear frayed jeans. ၂။ (စိတ်)တိုသည်။ ကတောက်ကဆ ဖြစ်သည်။ Nerves / Tempers began to fray in the heat. Our relations with the neighbours have got a bit frayed recently.
Synonyms
fight, dispute, skirmish, scrimmage, tussle, conflict, battle, affray, argument, battle royal, become ragged, become threadbare, brawl, broil, brouhaha, chafe, clash, combat, come apart, contest, disagreement, distress, disturbance, donnybrook, engagement, erode, fracas, frazzle, fret, melee, quarrel, ravel, riot, rip, row, rub, ruckus, rumble, rumpus, scuffle, set-to, shred, tatter, tear, unravel, wear, wear away, wear out, wear thin
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