Chafe

Definition: Chafe

Chafe

Noun

1. Soreness and warmth caused by friction; "he had a nasty chafe on his knee".

2. Anger produced by some annoying irritation.

Verb

1. Become or make sore by or as if by rubbing.

2. Feel extreme irritation or anger; "He was chafing at her suggestion that he stay at home while she went on a vacation".

3. Cause annoyance in; disturb, esp. by minor irritations: "Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really bothers me"; "It irritates me that she never closes the door after she leaves".

4. Make sore by abrading; "This leash chafes the dog's neck".

5. Cause friction; "my sweater scratches".

6. Warm by rubbing, as with the hands.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "chafe" was first used: 13th century. (references)

Note: Chafe \Chafe\ (ch[=a]f), transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Chafed(ch[=a]ft); p pr. & verb noun. Chafing.]. (references)

Synonyms: Chafe

Calefaction

Verb: heat, warm, chafe, stive, foment; make hot; sun oneself, sunbathe.

Discontent

Take in bad part, take ill; fret, chafe, make a piece of work; grumble, croak; lament.

Excitability

Verb: be impatient; Adjective: not be able to bear; bear ill, wince, chafe, champ a bit; be in a stew; Noun: be out of all patience, fidget, fuss, not have a wink of sleep; toss on one's pillow.

Pain

Sit on thorns, be on pins and needles, wince, fret, chafe, worry oneself, be in a taking, fret and fume; take on, take to heart; cark.

Irritate, provoke, sting, nettle, try the patience, pique, fret, rile, tweak the nose, chafe, gall; sting to the quick, wound to the quick, cut to the quick; aggrieve, affront, enchafe, enrage, ruffle, sour the temper; give offense; (resentment).

Physical Pain

Give pain, inflict pain; lacerate; pain, hurt, chafe, sting, bite, gnaw, gripe; pinch, tweak; grate, gall, fret, prick, pierce, wring, convulse; torment, torture; rack, agonize; crucify; cruciate, excruciate; break on the wheel, put to the rack; flog. (punish); grate on the ear. (harsh sound).

Resentment

Chafe, mantle, fume, kindle, fly out, take fire; boil, boil over; boil with indignation, boil with rage; rage, storm, foam, vent one's rage, vent one's spleen; lose one's temper, stand on one's hind legs, stamp the foot, stamp with rage, quiver with rage, swell with rage, foam with rage; burst with anger; raise Cain.

Cause anger, raise anger; affront, offend; give offense, give umbrage; anger; hurt the feelings; insult, discompose, fret, ruffle, nettle, huff, pique; excite; irritate, stir the blood, stir up bile; sting, sting to the quick; rile, provoke, chafe, wound, incense, inflame, enrage, aggravate, add fuel to the flame, fan into a flame, widen the breach, envenom, embitter, exasperate, infuriate, kindle wrath; stick in one's gizzard; rankle &e.; hit on the raw, rub on the raw, sting on the raw, strike on the raw.

Crosswords: Chafe

No. These pants tend to chafe one's - legs (Angel; writing credit: Letícia Dornelles)

Unless it starts to chafe. Then you should take a week off (That '70s Show; writing credit: Stacia Raymond)

Out On a Limb: a Poem by Geraldine Chafe Rubia (1993)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• The Pocket Encyclopedia of Aggravation: 101 Things that Annoy, Bother, Chafe, Disturb, Enervate, Frustrate, Grate, Harass, Irk, Jar, Mife, Nettle, Outrage, Peeve, Quassh, Rile, Stress Out, Trouble, Upset, Vex, Worry and X,Y Z You! (reference)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "chafe": be in a chafe ♦ chafe against ♦ chafe at ♦ chafe at smth.. Additional references.

Beginning with "chafe": chafe-wax.

Albanian

zemërim (anger, bitterness, conniption, Dander, dudgeon, effervescence, effervescency, exasperation, excitement, huff, impatience, indignation, ire, Paddy, paddywhack, passion, petulance, rage, rasp, spite, wax, wrath), xhindos (anger, enrage, infuriate, irritate, madden), vend i acaruar, nxehem (become heated, become hot, blow up, fire up, fly into a passion, fly into a rage, get angry, get hot, lose one's temper), nxeh (cook, enrage, excite, gall, heat, irritate, make angry, Mull, rile, roil, torrefy, vex), ngroh me të fërkuar, kruaj (abrade, dress, dub, fret, grate, pick, scratch), irritohem, heq me të fërkuar, acaroj (accentuate, aggravate, exacerbate, fluster, jar, nettle, peeve, sharpen). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فرك التماسا للدفئ, ‏فرك (rub, rubbing, scour, scrape, scrub, stone), ‏نكد (distemper, fractious, grouchiness, moodiness, moody, peevish, pettish, petulant, querulous, somber, sombre, splenetic, sulk, sullen, testy, vex, vinegar), ‏غيظ (anger, annoy, embitter, fret, gall, incense, infuriate, ire, irritate, madden, nettle, offend, peeve, pique, provoke, rage, resentment, rib, rile, ruffle, scandalize, spite, twit, vex, wrath), ‏غضب (aggravate, anger, annoy, be angry, be irritated, crab, dander, displease, embitter, enrage, exasperate, exasperation, fire, flounce, fret, fume, gall, get on his nerves, get smb.'s goat, go mad, grumpiness, harrow, heat, incense, indignation, inflame, infuriate, irascibility, ire, irritate, irritation, itch, jitter, lose one's shirt, mad, madden, miff, nettle, offend, outcry, outrage, peeve, pet, pique, pout, provoke, rage, resentment, rile, rough, ruffle, seethe, soreness, sour, spite, spleen, twit, vex), ‏سخن (broil, heat, heat up, hum, mull, overheat, overheating, run in, scald, stoke, stove, warm up, worm oneself), ‏إغتاظ (rage, resent), ‏أثار (aggravate, arouse, awaken, bestir, burn, elicit, engage, evoke, exacerbate, exalt, excite, fan, ferment, flurry, foment, fray, frazzle, fret, fuss, gall, get, gravel, gripe, heat, impassion, inflame, infuriate, inspire, instigate, irritate, itch, jog, jostle, kindle, madden, move, outrage, pique, remnant, rile, rouse, sour, stimulate, switch on, tease, thrill, touch off, transport, trigger, trouble, turn on, unsettle, urge, vex, whet, whip, work), ‏أبلى بالحك (fray). (various references)

Bulgarian 

стоплям чрез разтриване, ядосвам (anger, annoy, go mad, grieve, irritate, peeve, rouse, tick off, vex), разтърквам, търкам (furbish, rub, scour, scrub), губя търпение, ожулено място (abrasion, graze, raw, scrape), жуля (scour, scrub, sting, tingle), протривам (fray, gall, rub, scuff). (various references)

Chinese 

摩�"� (friction, frictional, Rubbed, rubbing). (various references)

Czech

rozedřít, odřít (abrade, chip, excoriate, flay, lacerate, scrape, strip), mnout, drhnout (pumice, rub, scour), dohřát se. (various references)

Danish

skamfile (chafing, to chafe). (various references)

Dutch

schavielen (chafing, to chafe), schavelen (chafing, to chafe), aanlopen van touwwerk (chafing, to chafe). (various references)

Farsi 

پوست رفتگی , مالش دادن , ساءیدن (Bruise, Fray, Gall, Gnaw, Grate, Grind, Grit, Levigate, Pulverize, Rub, Scuff), ساءیدگی (Abrasion, Attrition, Erosion, Gall), عصبانیت (Heat, Huff, Ire), خراشیدن (Erase, Glance, Graze, Rase, Scrape, Scrub), اوقات تلخی کردن به , بوسیله اصطکاک گرم کردن . (various references)

Finnish

kahnata (rub), hiertää (abrade), hieroutua (gall, rub), hangata (gall, rub). (various references)

French

user, s'irriter, raguer (chafing, to chafe), mettre en colère, irriter, grippage, frotter, frictionner, faire chauffer. (various references)

German

reiben (grate, grind, rub, rubbing, to chafe, to rub). (various references)

Greek 

συγκαίομαι, προστρίβω (rub against), προστρίβομαι, ζεσταίνω (heat, mull, warm up), ερεθρίζω (provoke), ερεθίζω (aggravate, exacerbate, exasperate, excite, fret, incite, inflame, irritate, nettle, pique, provoke, rankle, rile, stimulate, vex, whet), τρίβω (abrade, brush, fray, frazzle, grate, grind, massage, pound, powder, rub, scour, scrub, triturate, wear). (various references)

Hebrew 

לחמם (heat, heat up, scald, warm, warm up). (various references)

Hungarian

felhorzsolás (chafing, excoriation). (various references)

Indonesian

melukai (hurt, injure, scathe, wound), melecetkan (rub (the skin, scuff (one's shoes), marah (angry, crabbed, crusty, indignant, irate, mad, shirty, wrathful, wroth), garut (abrade). (various references)

Italian

sfregarsi, riscaldare-also- irritarsi, logorarsi (fray, go, waste, wear out, weather), logorare (exhaust, frazzle, ruin, use up, waste, wear, wear out), irritazione (annoyance, fret, irritation, nervousness, peeve, soreness, vexation), irritarsi (become irritated, fret), irritare (anger, annoy, become irritated, enrage, fret, gall, irritate, nettle, provoke, rile, rouse, tease, vex), impazientirsi (fret), fare arrabbiare (anger). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

摩�"� (friction, rubbing, rubdown). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

まさつ (friction, rubbing, rubdown). (various references)

Manx

screebey (abrade, abrasion, claw, dress, friction, grate, graze, itch, rasp, scrape, scrape along, scraping, scratch, scrawl, scuffle, stridulate, striking), rubbey (rub, wipe), jiargey (red, sore), chehghey (chaffing). (various references)

Norwegian

irritere (exasperate, fret, gall, irritate), gnage (fret, gall, gnaw). (various references)

Pig Latin

afechay.(various references)

Portuguese

calor (animation, caloric, glow, heat, warmth), puir (fray, frazzle, ravel, wear out), irritar-se (fume, miff, rankle), irritar (aggravate, anger, annoy, bug, bullyrag, corkscrew, disgruntle, displeasure, enrage, exacerbate, exasperate, fash, feeze, gall, huff, incense, irritate, madden, nark, needle, nettle, offend, peeve, pique, provoke, rile, roil, roughen, ruffle, sharpen, spite, thurify, vex), irritação (aggravation, anger, exacerbation, exasperation, fret, irritancy, pique, provocation, resentment, spunk), friccionar para aquecer, escoriação (gall, raw, rawness), enervar-se, desgastar (abrade, corrode, fray, frazzle, fret, outwear, rub, wash out, waste, wear, wear down, wear off, wear out), aquecimento (acceleration, firing, warm, warming, warming-up). (various references)

Romanian

supãrare (affliction, anger, annoyance, bitterness, burden, care, cloud, cross, damage, Dander, fury, grief, harm, irritation, mood, moroseness, mumps, pain, peevishness, pet, pettishness, pique, rage, Ruth, sadness, sorrow, spite, spunk, suffering, sulk, trouble, vexation), supãra (anger, annoy, ballyrag, exasperate, grieve, inconvenience, irk, irritate, miff, molest, nettle, offend, pester, pinch, plague, provoke, reck, rile, rumple, spite, tease, trouble, vex), se mânia (fire up, fling), mânia (anger, infuriate, make angry, provoke), iritare (irritation, pettishness, rasping, spunk), irita (aggravate, annoy, crab, exacerbate, exasperate, fret, heat, irritate, nettle, pique, rasp, relax, ruffle, stroke smb.'s hair the wrong way, vex), freca (contuse, fret, grate, grease, rub, rub on, rub over, scrub, slate), enerva (aggravate, annoy, fidget, gall, get on one's nerves, grieve, irritate, nettle, rasp, vex, worry), dezmorţi (revive, smarten up, take the chill off), încãlzire prin frecare, încãlzi (animate, fire, heat, hot up, warm). (various references)

Russian 

тереть (grate, rub, rubbed, rubbing). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uzbuditi se (get excited), trljati (rub). (various references)

Spanish

rozar (grate, graze, rub, skim, touch), rozadura (fretting, frictional wear, scratch), raer (abrade, fray, fret, graze, wear away), lo de irritación, irritar a (aggravate, anger, nettle, put out), frotar (abrade, abrasiveness, brush, rub, rub in, scratch), escocerse (get chafed), escaldar (scald). (various references)

Swedish

gnida (fray, pinch, rub, scrape, wipe), frottera (rub, rub down). (various references)

Thai

ทำให้อุ่น�"้วยการถู, ทำให้รำคาญ (annoy), การรบกวน (bother, molestation, nag, nuisance), ถลอกจากการขั�"ถู, รำคาญ (eggy, miffed). (various references)

Turkish

yaralamak (bruise, hit, hurt, injure, lacerate, maul, pip, prick, rasp, scotch, wound), yıpratmak (age, batter, corrode, fray, fray out, frazzle, fret, thumb, wear, wear away, wear down), sürtmek (gad, gad about, gall, hang out, horse around, loiter, muck about, range, rub, tramp, wander idly), sürtünmek (brush, jostle, rub, scrape), rahatsız olmak (ail, be annoyed, be disturbed, be liverish, be troubled with, be uncomfortable, take alarm, worry), rahatsız etmek (ail, annoy, badger, bait, bother, chivvy, chivy, derange, devil, discomfort, discommode, distract, disturb, get in smb.'s hair, goad, goad on, harass, hassle, hatchel, hump, incommode, inconvenience, irritate, make a draft on, pester, put smb. to inconvenience, put upon, trouble, twist smb.'s tail, worry), ovuşturmak (rub, wring), ovalamak (gall, rub, scrub), kızmak (be angry, be angry with smb., be nettled at, be riled at, become hot, cut up rough, fly off the handle, fret, gall, get hot, get hot under the collar, grow hot, have one's hackles up, heat, huff, inflame, lose one's temper, ruffle), kızdırmak (aggravate, anger, annoy, badger, bait, bug, burn, enrage, exacerbate, exasperate, gall, get across, get in one's hair, heat, heat up, huff, incense, inflame, infuriate, irritate, nettle, overheat, peeve, play to, provoke, put about, put out, put smb. out of temper, put smb.'s nose out of joint, rile, rough the wrong way, rouse, ruffle smb.'s temper, steam up, superheat, tease, twit, vex), gücenmek (be hurt, be offended, be piqued at, be vexed with smb., go to pieces, have the pouts, huff, resent, take offence, take offense, take umbrage at), gücendirmek (affront, badger, disoblige, displease, gall, give offence, give offense, give umbrage, huff, miff, offend, pique, tread on smb.'s corns, vex), berelenmek (bruise), aşınmak (be abraded, be eroded, consume away, fine away, fine down, fine off, fray, fray out, rub off, wash away, wash off, waste, waste away, wear away, wear down, wear off, wear out). (various references)

Ukrainian

гнів (anger, choler, furor, ire, passion, rage, wrath), протирати (abrade, fray, wear), підігрівати (preheat, reheat), лють (anger, rabidity, wrath), зношувати (abrade, fray, wear, wear down), нагрівати (heat, heat up, warm), натирати (rub), нервувати (jitter, raise a dust, unnerve), дратуватися, гарячкувати, стирати (abrade, cancel, deface, delete, efface, erase, obliterate, rub out, wipe away), гріти (roast, warm), шаленство (fury, phrensy, rage, rampage, raving, vehemence), терти (beat, fridge, grate, rasp, rub, scrub), тертися (rub), роздратування (anger, annoyance, disgust, distemper, exacerbation, exasperation, fret, harass, inflammation, irritation, needle, peeve, petulance, petulancy, pique, provocation, teen), розтирати (contuse, knead, pulverize, rub), садно (abrasion, chap, galling, raw, rawness), втирати (rub in). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự trêu tức (teasing), sự nổi giận (spunk), sự nổi cáu, sự ch� xát chỗ trầy da. (various references)

Welsh

sorri (be displeased, sulk), rhwbio (rub), llidio (anger, be angry, inflame), ffromi (fume, rage), brochi (bluster, fume). (various references)

adteratur, adterentur, adterere, adtereret, adteretur, adteritis, adtrita, adtriti, adtritis, adtritum, adtritus, adtriverat, adtrivisti, adtrivit, calefacere, peruro perussi perustum. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "chafe": chafed, chafer, chafers, chafes. (additional references)

Words containing "chafe": cockchafer, cockchafers. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Chafe" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cafa, cafen, caffe, cafi, cafo, cafu, chace, chade, chae, chaf, Chafee, chafen, chaffe, chaft, Chafyn, chaif, chale, chame, chamf, chane, chape, Charfi, chauf, chave, chaze, cheef, chefe, chefet, chf, Chiaje, chiefe, chifa, chofer, Chware, Claffam, cohave, Echave, hafa, hafe, kafa, Kajfez, khaf, khafi, Khufu, schlafen. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: ache, cafe, chef, each, face.

-2 letters: ace, feh, hae.

-3 letters: ae, ah, ef, eh, fa, ha, he.

+1 letter: chafed, chafer, chafes.

+2 letters: affiche, chafers, chaffed, chaffer, chamfer, chaufer.

+3 letters: affiches, cavefish, chaffers, chaffier, chamfers, chaufers, chauffer, farouche, wheyface.

+4 letters: archfiend, catfishes, chaffered, chafferer, chaffiest, chamfered, chanceful, changeful, chauffers, chauffeur, chieftain, doughface, facecloth, flashcube, forereach, franchise, halfpence, lightface, parfleche, preachify, rechauffe, vouchsafe, wheyfaces, whiteface.

+5 letters: aftershock, archerfish, archfiends, beachfront, candlefish, catchflies, cavefishes, chafferers, chaffering, chamfering, chapfallen, chauffeurs, chieftains, chiffonade, chopfallen, coalfishes, cockchafer, crawfished, crawfishes, crayfishes, doughfaces, facecloths, farfetched, fianchetti, fianchetto, flashcubes, flycatcher, franchised, franchisee, franchiser, franchises, handcuffed, hawfinches, hovercraft, jackfishes, lightfaced, lightfaces, parfleches, rechauffes, satchelful, shamefaced, ultrafiche, vouchsafed, vouchsafes, whitefaces.