intransitive verb. To wear away or irritate by rubbing or friction.

intransitive verb. To annoy; vex.

intransitive verb. To warm by rubbing, as with the hands.

intransitive verb. To cause irritation by rubbing or friction.

intransitive verb. To become worn or sore from rubbing or friction.

intransitive verb. To feel irritated or impatient.

noun. Warmth, wear, or soreness produced by friction.

noun. Annoyance; vexation.

noun. Heat excited by friction.

noun. An irritated mental condition arising from continued provocation or annoyance; heated impatience or anger, especially under restraint or a sense of injury; a fretful tendency or state; vexation.

To heat; make warm.

To excite heat in or make warm by friction; stimulate to warmth by rubbing, as with the hands: as, to chafe the limbs.

To fret and wear by friction; abrade; especially, abrade (the skin) by rubbing; make sore by rubbing; gall: as, the coarse garments chafed his skin.

To irritate; annoy; vex; gall; make angry.

To stimulate, as by pungent odors; perfume. [Rare.]

To animate; revive; inspirit; encourage.

Synonyms 3. To rub, wear.

To gall, vex, irritate, heat, ruffle, exasperate.

To be or become heated.

To be fretted and worn by rubbing: as, the cable chafed against a rock.

To be irritated or annoyed; fret; fume.

To be in violent agitation; rage or boil; dash, as in anger; fret.

intransitive verb. To rub; to come together so as to wear by rubbing; to wear by friction.

intransitive verb. To be worn by rubbing.

intransitive verb. To have a feeling of vexation; to be vexed; to fret; to be irritated.

transitive verb. To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.

transitive verb. To excite passion or anger in; to fret; to irritate.

transitive verb. To fret and wear by rubbing.

noun. Heat excited by friction.

noun. Injury or wear caused by friction.

noun. Vexation; irritation of mind; rage.

noun. Heat excited by friction.

noun. Injury or wear caused by friction.

noun. Vexation; irritation of mind; rage.

verb. To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.

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

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

verb. To rub; to come together so as to wear by rubbing; to wear by friction.

verb. To be worn by rubbing; as, a cable chafes.

verb. To have a feeling of vexation; to be vexed; to fret; to be irritated.

verb. cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations

noun. anger produced by some annoying irritation

verb. cause friction

verb. warm by rubbing, as with the hands

verb. become or make sore by or as if by rubbing

verb. tear or wear off the skin or make sore by abrading

verb. feel extreme irritation or anger

noun. soreness and warmth caused by friction

"A recent entry describes relentless attacks from what he calls the "chafe monster.""

abrade  abrase  adjoin  contact  corrade  

Rafe  safe  strafe  unsafe  waif  

ablate  ablation  abrade  abrase  abrasion  

chafed  chafes  chafing