0 present participle of fray
1 to become or to cause the threads in cloth or rope to become slightly separated, forming loose threads at the edge or end:
2 If your temper frays or your nerves fray, you gradually become upset or annoyed:
The divisions created in the colonial era and perpetuated in the post-colonial one may indeed be fraying at the edges.
For instance, the age of tsetse flies might be determined from the relationship between the pattern quantified and age-related changes such as wing fraying.
Even wing rubbing, fading or fraying, previously referred to as a nuisance factor, may be of intrinsic interest.
We look into the fraught and fraying edges of a community, where its influential men were needed to keep the whole group together.
Polymastix in which the periplast is fraying oft.
It shows how local government services are fraying at the edges.
It might be that the curtains are fraying or the carpet is going.
This is where the "resolute approach" is already fraying at the edges.
