chafe

English

Etymology

Middle English chaufen (“to warm”), from Old French chaufer (modern French chauffer), from Latin calefacere, calfacere (“to make warm”), from calere (“to be warm”) + facere (“to make”). See caldron.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪf

Noun

chafe (uncountable)

1. Heat excited by friction.
2. Injury or wear caused by friction.
3. Vexation; irritation of mind; rage.

Translations

heat excited by friction

French: chauffer en frictionnant (fr)

injury or wear caused by friction

Bulgarian: ожулване (bg) n., протриване (bg) n. Danish: gnavesår (da) n. Finnish: hiertymä (fi), hankauma (fi)

French: inflammation (fr) f. Russian: ссадина (ru) (ssádina) f., потёртость (ru) (potjórtost') f.

vexation; irritation of mind; rage

Bulgarian: разразнение (bg) n. Finnish: ärsytys (fi)

Russian: раздражение (ru) (razdražénije) n.

Verb

chafe (third-person singular simple present chafes, present participle chafing, simple past and past participle chafed)

1. (transitive) To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.
2. (transitive) To excite passion or anger in; to fret; to irritate.
3. (transitive) To fret and wear by rubbing; as, to chafe a cable.
4. (intransitive) To rub; to come together so as to wear by rubbing; to wear by friction.
5. (intransitive) To be worn by rubbing; as, a cable chafes.
6. (intransitive) To have a feeling of vexation; to be vexed; to fret; to be irritated.
   • 1996, Jim Schiller , Developing Jepara in New Order Indonesia, page 58:

     Many local politicians chafed under the restrictions of Guided Democracy, [...].

Translations

to excite passion or anger in

Bulgarian: дразня

Finnish: ärsyttää (fi)

to fret and wear by rubbing

Bulgarian: протривам (bg) Finnish: hangata (fi)

Russian: натирать (ru) (natirát') impf., натереть (ru) (naterét') pf.

to rub; to come together so as to wear by rubbing; to wear by friction

Bulgarian: трия (bg), търкам (bg) Finnish: hangata (fi) German: reiben (de), scheuern (de)

Russian: тереть (ru) (terét') impf., (intransitive) тереться (ru) (terét'sja) impf.

to be worn by rubbing

Bulgarian: протривам се Finnish: hankautua (fi)

German: verschleißen (de), durchscheuern (de)

to be vexed; to fret; to be irritated

Bulgarian: дразня се, горещя се Finnish: ärsyyntyä (fi)

French: irriter (fr), vexer (fr) Russian: горячиться (ru) (gorjačít'sja) impf.

References

• chafe in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• Chafe on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Spanish

Verb

chafe (infinitive chafar)

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of chafar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of chafar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of chafar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of chafar.