Words and phrases that have a meaning related to fraying: (122 results)
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Also try:unraveling, fragile, tattered, disintegrating, brittle, splintering, eroding, mended, crumbling, straining, tenuous, loosening, torn, labrums, threadbare, ingrown, fractious, shaky, deteriorate, fissured, stiffening, corroding, deepening, disintegration, weakening, fractured, abraded, fabric, stitching, unbreakable, raveled, wobbly, deterioration, cracks, chafing, rupture, shoring, calcify, sundering, friction, rifts, ropelike, slipping, teetering, slippage, precarious, pliability, faltering, uneasy, unwoven, gnawing, slackening, seams, tangled, creaking, riven, prickly, souring, hardening, rusted, strengthening, ribbonlike, inflamed, crimping, worn, buckling, drooping, woven, interlocking, broken, diminishing, stretched, uneven, weariness, unhinging, evaporating, sewn, knit, tightening, sags, estrangement, discord, tugging, fading, unstable, fanlike, ligamentous, ossifying, schisms, meshy, nicks, mistrustful, fastened, enfolding, creaky, flimsy, ebbing, clinging, looser, imploding, wane, creased, abrasion, clumping, pitting, scarring, undermining, widening, bruising, chipping, retouching, roughening, soiling, blistering, blunting, blurring, breakage, bulging, comminution, flaking, flexing, overlapping
— Adjectives for fraying: slight, further, extensive, excessive, little, labral, degenerative, obvious, superficial, considerable, minimal, more...
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