chafe

[Chafe]

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.

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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"

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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

Chafe , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Chafed ; p pr. & vb. n. Chafing.] [OE. chaufen to warm, OF. chaufer, F. chauffer, fr. L. calefacere, calfacere, to make warm; calere to be warm + facere to make. See Caldron.] 1. To ecxite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.

To rub her temples, and to chafe her skin.

2. To excite passion or anger in; to fret; to irritate.

Her intercession chafed him.

3. To fret and wear by rubbing; as, to chafe a cable.

Two slips of parchment which she sewed round it to prevent its being chafed.

Syn. -- To rub; fret; gall; vex; excite; inflame.

Chafe

Chafe, v. i. To rub; to come together so as to wear by rubbing; to wear by friction.

Made its great boughs chafe together.

The troubled Tiber chafing with her shores.

2. To be worn by rubbing; as, a cable chafes. 3. To have a feeling of vexation; to be vexed; to fret; to be irritated. Spenser.

He will chafe at the doctor's marrying my daughter.

Chafe

Chafe, n. 1. Heat excited by friction. 2. Injury or wear caused by friction. 3. Vexation; irritation of mind; rage.

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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