Synonyms of fraying

fraying

verb

present participle of fray

as in eroding

to damage or diminish by continued friction

constant rubbing against the rock face has badly frayed our climbing rope

Synonyms & Similar Words

• eroding
• wearing
• rubbing
• chafing
• reducing
• abrading
• biting
• erasing
• fretting
• scraping
• sharpening
• galling
• shaving
• gnawing
• rasping
• frazzling
• eating
• scuffing
• disintegrating
• corrading
• corroding
• chewing
• scouring
• filing
• nibbling
• grazing
• grating
• wiping (away)
• sandpapering
• decomposing
• sandblasting
• dissolving
• wearing out
• grinding
• whetting
• honing
• rubbing out
• breaking down
• breaking up

Examples Sentences

Recent Examples of fraying

Now imagine the fingers are fraying at the tips, like old rope, and that your arm is disconcertingly thin. —Blake Nelson, The Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2024

In the meantime, however, the crypto coalition that Lehane helped to build has begun fraying—a victim of the same partisan divides that plague the rest of the nation. —Charles Duhigg, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024

Negotiations were fraying between the state and the powerful hospital industry over the plan to make hospitals relieve patient debt or lose billions of dollars of public funding tied to the state’s Medicaid expansion. —Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 1 Oct. 2024

After our many hikes, the shoes have no signs of rips, tears, or fraying. —Kevin Brouillard, Travel + Leisure, 30 Sep. 2024