Meaning of unfret | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To smooth after being fretted.
   transitive
2. To sooth or calm; to make or become less fretful or stressed.
   ambitransitive, broadly
3. To remove (a string) from the frets of a musical instrument.

Examples

“My mind misgives: to Joppa will I fly, And for a while to Tharsus shape my course, Until the Lord unfret his angry brows.”

“For how many floodings must it assuage, For how many shufflings must it unfret Those winking, muttering banks with its aching arch.”

“Much of the alleged roughness of Donne's prosody unfrets itself without betraying his refusal of mellifluous regularity – if readers fit word lengths and rests into lines as singers do.”

“So unfret that brow, put your worries behind you, let's see some jolly light those eyes.”

“"She'll be all right," Madge assured him. "Now you go out a while, and unfret yourself. It's a boy you've got."”

“Fall back and unfret yourself, Ol' Fuzzer!”

“My laugh is a light, gentle trill, perfectly tuned to unfret him immediately.”

“Though helpless, I could not help standing as mute witness and let the situation unfret without trying to do something and I almost shouted in high pitch, "Why are you beating him? What has he done to you? We are students from University and going home. We are innocent."”

“Just as several notes can be played on a single bow, the guitarist can play several notes with a single pluck, using legato or ligado techniques in which the left hand continues to fret or unfret notes after the string has been plucked.”

“To avoid confusion, a 0 appears if, as is usually the case, the string is to be unfretted;”

“You may wish to approach the fingering by moving only one finger at a time, and only then when you absolutely must move it to a new position, or unfret the string so it may be played open.”

CEFR level