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Definition of 'chafe'English
Noun
( -)
Heat excited by friction.
Injury or wear caused by friction.
Vexation; irritation of mind; rage.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.5:
- Like a wylde Bull, that, being at a bay, / Is bayted of a mastiffe and a hound / […] That in his chauffe he digs the trampled ground / And threats his horns […].
Verb
( chaf)
To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.
To excite passion or anger in; to fret; to irritate.
To fret and wear by rubbing; as, to chafe a cable.
To rub; to come together so as to wear by rubbing; to wear by friction.
* Shakespeare
- the troubled Tiber chafing with her shores
* Longfellow
- made its great boughs chafe together
To be worn by rubbing.
- A cable chafes .
To have a feeling of vexation; to be vexed; to fret; to be irritated.
* Shakespeare
- He will chafe at the doctor's marrying my daughter.
* 1996 , Jim Schiller , Developing Jepara in New Order Indonesia , page 58:
- Many local politicians chafed under the restrictions of Guided Democracy
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