Sekirov Dictionary

frail

/fɹeɪl/

adjective 5
noun 6
verb 1
forms 5

adjective5

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Easily broken physically; not firm or durable; liable to fail and perish.
- Returne with speed, time passeth swift away, Our life is fraile, and we may dye to day. — 1587
•
Weak; infirm.
- Frail smoke of morning in the air and a sort of muffled hum that is not sound but is not silence either. — 1993
In an infirm state leading one to be easily subject to disease or other health problems, especially regarding the elderly.
Mentally fragile.
Liable to fall from virtue or be led into sin; not strong against temptation; weak in resolution; unchaste.

noun6

A basket made of rushes, used chiefly to hold figs and raisins.
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(slang, old-fashioned) A girl.
- She was the roughest, toughest frail, but Minnie had a heart as big as a whale. — 1931
The quantity of fruit or other items contained in a frail.
A rush for weaving baskets.
Synonym of farasola (“old unit of weight”).
(dialect, no longer used) Synonym of flail.

verb1

To play a stringed instrument, usually a banjo, by picking with the back of a fingernail.

forms

frailed · frailing · frails · frailer · frailest

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