Definitions for chafes

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Spelling: [cheyf]

IPA: /tʃeɪf/

Chafes is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 103 anagrams from letters in chafes (acefhs).

Definitions for chafes

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 chafes

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 chafes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.