To chafe is to irritate or annoy. If your shoes chafe you, they rub your skin raw. Ouch. If you chafe at the suggestion that you should be studying more, the suggestion rubs you the wrong way.
To ecxite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.
Noun
anger produced by some annoying irritation
Noun
soreness and warmth caused by friction; "he had a nasty chafe on his knee"
Verb
warm by rubbing, as with the hands
Verb
cause friction; "my sweater scratches"
Verb
tear or wear off the skin or make sore by abrading; "This leash chafes the dog''s neck"
Verb
cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations; "Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really bothers me"; "It irritates me that she never closes the door after she leaves"
Verb
feel extreme irritation or anger; "He was chafing at her suggestion that he stay at home while she went on a vacation"
Verb
become or make sore by or as if by rubbing
v. t.
To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to
stimulate and make warm.
v. t.
To excite passion or anger in; to fret; to irritate.
v. t.
To fret and wear by rubbing; as, to chafe a cable.
v. i.
To rub; to come together so as to wear by rubbing; to
wear by friction.
v. i.
To be worn by rubbing; as, a cable chafes.
v. i.
To have a feeling of vexation; to be vexed; to fret; to
be irritated.
n.
Heat excited by friction.
n.
Injury or wear caused by friction.
n.
Vexation; irritation of mind; rage.
Chafe
To rub her temples, and to chafe her skin.2.
Her intercession chafed him.3.
Two slips of parchment which she sewed round it to prevent its being chafed.
Chafe
Made its great boughs chafe together.
The troubled Tiber chafing with her shores.2.
He will chafe at the doctor's marrying my daughter.
Chafe
The cardinal in a chafe sent for him to Whitehall.
To ecxite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.
To rub; to come together so as to wear by rubbing; to wear by friction.
Heat excited by friction.
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