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US
/ˈtʃeɪf/
]
[ UK /tʃˈeɪf/ ]
[ UK /tʃˈeɪf/ ]
VERB
- become or make sore by or as if by rubbing
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cause friction
my sweater scratches -
tear or wear off the skin or make sore by abrading
This leash chafes the dog's neck -
cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
It irritates me that she never closes the door after she leaves
Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really bothers me -
feel extreme irritation or anger
He was chafing at her suggestion that he stay at home while she went on a vacation - warm by rubbing, as with the hands
NOUN
- anger produced by some annoying irritation
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soreness and warmth caused by friction
he had a nasty chafe on his knee
How To Use chafe In A Sentence
- Skin is easily irritated, chapped, chafed, and sensitized.
- Young people often chafe under the yoke of parental control.
- But tell me, and tell* me truly, Mr. Clinton; thefegems, when you firft purchafed them, were they ac* tually intended for me? were they not rather intended for your Fanny, for your own Fanny, Mr. Clinton? The Fool of Quality; Or, the History of Henry Earl of Moreland.
- Close by the stir of the great city, with all its fret and chafe and storm of life, in the desolate garden of that sombre house, and under the withering eyes of relentless Crime, revived the Arcady of old, -- the scene vocal to the reeds of idyllist and shepherd; and in the midst of the iron Tragedy, harmlessly and unconsciously arose the strain of the Pastoral Music. Lucretia — Complete
- If the Social Democratic policy has chafed occasionally, the benefits far outweigh the vexations.
- Rome, all noble men, whom the king did do balm and gum with many good gums aromatic, and after did do cere them in sixty fold of cered cloth of sendal, and laid them in chests of lead, because they should not chafe nor savour, and upon all these bodies their shields with their arms and banners were set, to the end they should be known of what country they were. Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
- The Count rallied his forces in Bechafen where the constant stream of refugees meant lean rations and poor quarters for all.
- It bloats with water if I don't watch my salt intake and it sheds its hair where socks chafe. The Voice of My Body
- On the school bus, though, Nina and Zina chafe under the teasing and finger-pointing about their foreign accents and clothes.
- Rome, all noble men, whom the king did do balm and gum with many good gums aromatic, and after did do cere them in sixty fold of cered cloth of sendal, and laid them in chests of lead, because they should not chafe nor savour, and upon all these bodies their shields with their arms and banners were set, to the end they should be known of what country they were. Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table