fray
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–noun
1. a fight, battle, or skirmish. (小規模戰鬥)
2. a competition or contest, esp. in sports.
3. a noisy quarrel or brawl. (鬧哄哄的)爭吵,打架 (水流的)嘩嘩聲
4. Archaic. fright.
brawl
–noun
1. a noisy quarrel, squabble, or fight.
2. a bubbling
or
roaring noise; a clamor.
3. Slang. a large, noisy party.
–verb (used without object)
4. to quarrel angrily and noisily; wrangle.
5. to make a bubbling or roaring noise, as water flowing over a rocky bed.
Russell is next expected to direct Matthew McConaughey in "The Grackle," a raucous comedy that is being produced by McConaughey’s jk livin’ banner and casts the actor as a barroom brawler who uses his skills to settle disputes for people who can’t afford a lawyer. That deal was made by Endeavor.
–verb (used with object)
5. Archaic. to frighten.
–verb (used without object)
6. Archaic. to fight or brawl.
–verb (used with object)
1. to wear (cloth, rope, etc.) to loose, raveled threads or fibers at the edge or end; cause to ravel out.
2. to wear by rubbing (sometimes fol. by through).
3. to cause strain on (something); upset; discompose: The argument frayed their [nerves].
4. to rub.
–verb (used without object)
5. to become frayed, as cloth; ravel out:
My sweater frayed at the [elbows].
6. to rub against something: tall grass fraying [against] my knees.
–noun
7. a frayed part, as in cloth: fray[s] at the toes of well-worn sneakers. 
Longtime fest film seller John Sloss' Cinetic Media also
[entered] the fray this year with the Digital Rights Management group,
led by former SXSW film fest director Matt Dentler, who is taking on some of the thousands of titles that are undervalued and haven't sold after playing the fest circuit. Cinetic will take rights exclusively as a distributor does, and share all revenues 50/50, with no advance.
1. 摩擦
scabrous
1. rough, scaly, prickly, or pimply
2. dirty, indecent
Yet if "Clerks II" doesn't have quite the [scabrous] kick of its predecessor,
cf.
scabby, scabious (covered with scabs)
burnish
the burnish of [brass] andirons.
lush timberland and burnished wood [surfaces] of the Hall abode,
scour
shingle
boulder
gravel
shivering proudly amid [topiary] and [gravelled] walks is at once witty and sublime.
brash
bristle
brittle
ruffle
rumple
corrugate
Debauchery
boulder
"Woman in the Dunes'' is a modern version of the myth of Sisyphus, the man condemned by the gods to spend eternity rolling a [boulder] to the top of a hill, only to see it roll back down.
The film opens with a montage of fingerprints and passport stamps, and then there is a closeup of a grain of sand as [big] as a [boulder],
The 1920s had seen the Fatty Arbuckle scandal. In 1921 Roscoe Conkling Arbuckle, the hard-living, [boulder]-shaped, heavy-boozing comedian who had become hugely popular in silent comedy,
True-life story centers on Ralston, who spent five days with his right forearm pinned under a boulder during a climb in May 2003.
seethe
she has hinted that something was seething [under]neath the beautiful mask
[Rage] made his blood boil.
to stew about (or over) one's [troubles].
Sarah becoming acquainted with local husband and father Brad (Patrick Wilson) — who seems to share in her [seething] discontentment with life in their quaint commuter town.
scald
to scald [milk]
mollycoddle
coddle
cf.
poach
to coddle [children] when they're sick.
to coddle an [egg].
Noah Baumbach's [scalding] follow-up to The Squid and the Whale
When Freddy’s grossly [scalded] head once again rises out of the bathwater between a [nubile] girl’s legs, I guess Billy Bob would be a fine choice.
scour
ransack rummage
fumble
Crypto
cuddle
coo
They all cooed over the [new baby].
huddle
curdle
a [scream] that curdled the blood.
chaff
josh or tease mildly
So I [chaffed] them and I gaily [laughed]
chafe
rub against, annoy
Her [collar] chafed her [neck].
The [dripping] of the faucet chafed her [nerves]
fray
fight, wear
Erik, meanwhile, is still struggling to join the ranks of the published, and his romance with Lillian begins to fray as the frustrated would-be author spends more time with Phillip and his pretentious compatriots.
frazzle
but by her extravagant turn as a frazzl[ed] performance artist
tatter
dressed in [rags] and [tatters]
Lorenzo flees Spain as his [reputation] [lies in tatters]
Tatter[ed] and [forlorn], Eve shows up in the dressing room of Broadway mega-star Margo Channing (Bette Davis), [weaving] a melancholy life story to Margo and her friends.
grate
His constant chatter grates [on] my nerves.
to grate on the [ear].
to grate a [carrot].
to grate one's [teeth]. with people grating tulip bulbs to make soup.
grist
grain to be ground
Every delay was so much more grist [for] her mill.
things "Bergman-esque"—overt psychological symbology, brooding seriousness, spiritual crisis, Scandi-angst—have been [grist] for farce.
Everything is [grist] for Stone's [mill].
hone
Two decades in Tinseltown surely honed Verhoeven's [perversity].
and hone their [aggression] on a shared hatred of women.
whet
to whet the [knife]
to whet [appetite] [curiosity]
refurbish
Last night we went to Kiehl’s’ celebration of their [re]furbished East Village flagship store
2. 極限範圍
3. 緊張精神疾病 Vicinity
3.5 疾病
3.6 身體器官 Scalp
Fray
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