fray

• n. 言い争う；争う；疲れさせる
• vt.疲れさせる；神経質になる、せっかちになる
• vi.
• n.（フレイ）人の名前；（仏）Fray；（独）Frei；（ハンガリー語）Frauy

ラテン語のfricare（すり減らす、こする）から、語源的には摩擦、歯ぎしりと同じ。

affray（争う、トラブルを起こす、パニックになる）から略され、語源はfraidと同じ。

fray (n.)

mid-14c., "feeling of alarm," shortening of affray (q.v.; see also afraid). Meaning "a brawl, a fight" is from early 15c. (late 14c. in Anglo-Latin). Fraymaker "fighter, brawler" is found in a 1530s statute recorded by Prynne ("Soveraigne Power of Parliaments and Kingdomes," 1643). Nares' "Glossary" has frayment (1540s).

fray (v.)

"wear off by rubbing," c. 1400, from Old French fraiier, froiier "to rub against, scrape; thrust against" (also in reference to copulation), from Latin fricare "to rub, rub down" (see friction). Intransitive sense "to ravel out" (of fabric, etc.) is from 1721. The noun meaning "a frayed place in a garment" is from 1620s. Related: Frayed; fraying.

1. This kind of living was beginning to fray her nerves.

このような生活は彼女を神経緊張させ始めた。

2.Tempers began to fray as the two teams failed to score.

両チームがゴールを決められないにつれて、みんなはだんだん落ち着かなくなってきた。

3.He would be inspiring young people to get into the political fray .

若者を政治的戦いに駆り立てる。

4.The stitching had begun to fray at the edges.

エッジのピンが摩耗し始めています。

5.Her washing machine tends to fray edges on intricate designs.

彼女の洗濯機は、織物の複雑な模様の縁を擦り潰すことが多い。