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fuss with

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fuss with something
1. to be busy with something without having a particular purpose. Jack had spent hours fussing with the old car.
2. to try to fix something complicated. It's a mistake to fuss with your computer.
Related vocabulary: fool with something, mess with something, fiddle with something
See also: fuss

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I looked upon him as the sort of person to be made a fuss with, and to make a fuss himself in any trifling disorder, and was chiefly concerned for those who had to nurse him; but now it is confidently asserted that he is really in a decline, that the symptoms are most alarming, and that part of the family, at least, are aware of it.
"Yes," says I, "and other times, when things is dull, they fuss with the parlyment; and if everybody don't go just so he whacks their heads off.
ud make a bigger fuss with her, according to what they've got.
 
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