unfret
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
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!"
Etymology
From un- + fret.