fray

India's support for Hasina has frayed relations between the two neighbours since her overthrow.

The fraying geopolitical relationship between the U.S. and China also hasn’t helped, nor has the increasing trend of younger audiences watching short-form content on their phones.

Wallen’s music is commercial and polished; Bryan’s is stripped down and frayed.

The skinny look to the scoreboard - a 27-23 victory - matched with frayed nerves and chewed fingernails.

Soon the fraying American regiments were being hounded south by west through New Jersey, and by Christmas Day King George’s troops had driven them across the Delaware River into Pennsylvania.