(transitive) To decorate or ornament, especially with an interlaced or interwoven pattern, or (architecture) with carving or relief (raised) work. / (transitive) To form a pattern on; to variegate.

To bind, to tie, originally with a loop or ring. / To fit frets on to (a musical instrument). / To press down the string behind a fret.

(Northumbria) A fog or mist at sea, or coming inland from the sea.

(rare) A channel or passage created by the sea.

(music, of a musical instrument) Having frets. / Decorated with fretwork.

simple past tense and past participle of fret

Irritable, bad-tempered, grumpy or peevish. / Unable to relax; fidgety or restless.

(physics) Förster resonance energy transfer

plural of fretting

plural of fretfulness