Meaning

(transitive) To smooth after being fretted..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To smooth after being fretted.
2. (by extension, ambitransitive) To sooth or calm; to make or become less fretful or stressed.
3. To remove (a string) from the frets of a musical instrument.

Example Sentences

My mind misgives: to Joppa will I fly, And for a while to Tharsus shape my course, Until the Lord unfret his angry brows.

For how many floodings must it assuage, For how many shufflings must it unfret Those winking, muttering banks with its aching arch.

Much of the alleged roughness of Donne's prosody unfrets itself without betraying his refusal of mellifluous regularity – if readers fit word lengths and rests into lines as singers do.

So unfret that brow, put your worries behind you, let's see some jolly light those eyes.

"She'll be all right," Madge assured him. "Now you go out a while, and unfret yourself. It's a boy you've got."

Fall back and unfret yourself, Ol' Fuzzer!

My laugh is a light, gentle trill, perfectly tuned to unfret him immediately.

Though helpless, I could not help standing as mute witness and let the situation unfret without trying to do something and I almost shouted in high pitch, "Why are you beating him? What has he done to you? We are students from University and going home. We are innocent."

Word Forms

• unfrets
• unfretting
• unfretted

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When Should You Use Unfret?

Use unfret when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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