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Word: frail (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Adjective:

  • Easily broken; mentally or physically fragile; not firm or durable; liable to fail and perish; easily destroyed; not tenacious of life; weak; infirm.
  • Liable to fall from virtue or be led into sin; not strong against temptation; weak in resolution; unchaste.

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Noun:

  • A basket made of rushes, used chiefly for containing figs and raisins.
  • A rush for weaving baskets.
  • The quantity of raisins contained in a frail.

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Verb:

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

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