Definitions for chafe

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Spelling: [cheyf]

IPA: /tʃeɪf/

Chafe is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 50 anagrams from letters in chafe (acefh).

Definitions for chafe

noun

1. irritation; annoyance.
2. heat, wear, or soreness caused by rubbing.

Idioms

1. chafe at the bit, to become impatient at delay:

verb (used with object)

1. to wear or abrade by rubbing:
2. to make sore by rubbing:
3. to irritate; annoy:
4. to warm by rubbing:
5. Obsolete. to heat; make warm.

verb (used without object)

1. to become worn or sore from rubbing:
2. to rub; press with friction:
3. to be irritated or annoyed:

Origin of chafe

1275-1325; Middle English chaufen to heat, rub, chafe Middle French chaufer Vulgar Latin *calfāre, variant of Latin cal(e)facere, equivalent to cale- (stem of calēre to be hot) + facere to ma

Examples for chafe

Watch that your pride does not chafe them—your power does not wantonly gall.

But it does chafe to be arrested by language cops when you are in fact driving in the right lane.

That he was beginning to chafe, to fret, and shuffle his feet only added to my dismay.

I miss the strife His shrunken staff, his hungry wife Inflame chafe!

Planks, secured to the rail by lines, were then run down to bear the chafe.

I chafe under dependence, and I know not how to assert my freedom.

And now he began to chafe because he was delaying the march.

He rolled him over on his back and began to chafe his hands.

Some people may simply find ways to sever their awkward ties that chafe.

“Clinton was even more bizarre, because of his lack of discipline,” chafe said.