6 (context intransitive English) To worry or be anxious.
5 (context transitive English) To chafe or irritate to worry. 4 (context transitive English) To cut through with fretsaw, create fretwork. 3 (context intransitive English) To be worn away to chafe to fray. 2 (context transitive and intransitive English) To gnaw, consume, eat away. 1 (context transitive obsolete/poetic English) To devour, consume eat. 4 (context mining in the plural English) The worn sides of river banks, where ores, or stones containing them, accumulate by being washed down from the hills, and thus indicate to the miners the locality of the veins. 2 Agitation of mind marked by complaint and impatience disturbance of temper irritation. 1 The agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or other cause a rippling on the surface of water. As a noun, early 15c., "a gnawing," also "the wearing effect" of awareness of wrongdoing, fear, etc. Modern German still distinguishes essen for humans and fressen for animals. Intransitive sense "be worried, vex oneself" is by 1550s. Figurative use is from c.1200, of emotions, sins, vices, etc., "to worry, consume, vex" someone or someone's heart or mind, from either the "eating" or the "rubbing" sense. Notion of "wear away by rubbing or scraping" (c.1200) might have come to this word by sound-association with Anglo-French forms of Old French froter "to rub, wipe beat, thrash," which is from Latin fricare "to rub" (see friction). \nUsed of monsters and Vikings in Middle English used of animals' eating. Cognates include Dutch vreton, Old High German freggan, German fressen, Gothic fraitan.\n Send us feedback.Old English fretan "devour, feed upon, consume," from Proto-Germanic compound *fra-etan "to eat up," from *fra- "completely" (see *per- (1)) + *etan "to eat" (see eat). These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'vexation.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Washington Post, Nestled into and around Scott’s tale of vexation are Twilight Zone versions of QAnon, the Proud Boys, the manosphere, neo-Nazis and other bizarre phenomena of our time. Washington Post, 23 June 2021 And there's the potential for Biden, who has Irish roots, to register his vexation over Johnson's contributions to a straining of the fragile peace in Northern Ireland.ī, 9 June 2021 And naturally, all this vexation just might be blocking the path to love. 2021 The owners tend to be torn between a deep sense of pride and a constant vexation.
Geoffrey Wheatcroft, The New Republic, 14 Oct. 2021 And this spluttering vexation is comical coming from a man who is veritably the L. 2021 Fishing rights have been a growing point of vexation between Britain and the European Union since Britons voted to leave the bloc in 2016. 2021 Meanwhile, at the Capitol, multiple Democrats piled on with expressions of surprise and vexation at Manchin’s seemingly sudden change of position.
Recent Examples on the Web The #jollofwars have turned Nigerians and Ghanaians from friends to foes, but also united them in their vexation at British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver’s twist of the famous rice and meat dish.
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