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frail
/fɹeɪl/
noun 6adj 5verb 1
Collocations
7(adj.)
VERBS
be, look, seem | become, get, grow
ADV
extremely, very | increasingly | rather
mentally, physically
My grandmother has become physically frail since her illness last year.
PHRASES
old and frail
His grandmother has become quite old and frail over the past few years.
Definitions
adj
1
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.
Its nest is composed of the frailest materials, and is light and small in proportion to the size of the bird
2
Weak; infirm.
Frail smoke of morning in the air and a sort of muffled hum that is not sound but is not silence either.
O as the soft and frail lights break upon your eyelids
3
In an infirm state leading one to be easily subject to disease or other health problems, especially regarding the elderly.
4
Mentally fragile.
5
Liable to fall from virtue or be led into sin; not strong against temptation; weak in resolution; unchaste.
noun
1
A girl.
She was the roughest, toughest frail, but Minnie had a heart as big as a whale.
There were five people in the Quirinal bar after dinner, a high-class Italian frail who sat on a stool making persistent conversation against the bartender's bored: “Si … Si … Si,” a light, snobbish Egyptian who was lonely but chary of the woman, and the two Americans.
verb
1
To play a stringed instrument, usually a banjo, by picking with the back of a fingernail.
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Returne with ſpeed, time paſſeth ſwift away, Our life is fraile, and we may dye to day.
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Its nest is composed of the frailest materials, and is light and small in proportion to the size of the bird
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Frail smoke of morning in the air and a sort of muffled hum that is not sound but is not silence either.
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She was the roughest, toughest frail, but Minnie had a heart as big as a whale.
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There were five people in the Quirinal bar after dinner, a high-class Italian frail who sat on a stool making persistent conversation against the bartender's bored: “Si … Si … Si,” a light, snobbish E
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‘She's pickin' 'em tonight, right on the nose,’ he said. ‘That tall black-headed frail.’
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