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fritzed

fritzed is the simple past and past participle of fritz.

Meaning of fritz

Verb

fritz (third-person singular simple present fritzes, present participle fritzing, simple past and past participle fritzed)

  1. (intransitive) To go wrong or become defective.
    • One clip, of Talking Heads playing “Born Under Punches” in Rome in 1980, is shot largely at groin level, amid sound equipment that is being manipulated for feedback squeals and other effects; it’s like being close to the crooked spine and fritzed nervous system of a body that’s simultaneously...2008 May 18, Virginia Heffernan, “Pixels at an Exhibition”, in New York Times

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Phrases with fritzed

Questions about fritzed

What is fritzed the simple past and past participle of?
Fritzed is the simple past and past participle of fritz.

Words near fritzed in the dictionary

  1. fritwares
  2. Fritwell
  3. fritz
  4. fritz out
  5. fritz up
  6. fritzed
  7. fritzed out
  8. fritzed up
  9. fritzes
  10. fritzes out
  11. fritzes up

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fritzed (page history and authors); fritz (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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