单词 | frazzled |
释义 | frazzled (fræzəld) adjective If you are frazzled, or if your nerves are frazzled, you feel mentally and physically exhausted. ...a place to calm the most frazzled tourist. I need to rest my frazzled nerves. frazzled in American English (ˈfræzəld) adjective informal worn-out; fatigued a party that left us frazzled Word origin [1870–75; frazzle + -ed2]This word is first recorded in the period 1870–75. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: giveaway, immobilize, linkage, onshore, upgrade-ed is a suffix forming the past participle of weak verbs (he had crossed the river), and of participial adjectives indicating a condition or quality resulting fromthe action of the verb (inflated balloons). Other words that use the affix -ed include: classified, integrated, loaded, unattended, unsettledExamples of 'frazzled' in a sentence |
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