unfret

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To smooth after being fretted.

   • 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.
2. 2

   To sooth or calm

   To sooth or calm; to make or become less fretful or stressed.

   • "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.
3. 3

   To remove (a string) from the frets of a musical instrument.

   • 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.

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