chafe

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See also: chafé

English

Etymology

From Middle English chaufen (“to warm”), borrowed 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

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  • Rhymes: -eɪf

Noun

chafe (uncountable)

  1. Heat excited by friction.
  2. Injury or wear caused by friction.
  3. Vexation; irritation of mind; rage.
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.5:
      Like a wylde Bull, that, being at a bay, / Is bayted of a mastiffe and a hound / […] That in his chauffe he digs the trampled ground / And threats his horns […]
  4. (archaic) An expression of opinionated conflict.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:argument
    • 1830, Joseph Plumb Martin, The Adventures Of A Revolutionary Soldier
      When we returned we found the poor prisoner in a terrible chafe with the sentinel for detaining him, for the guard had been true to his trust.

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Verb

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  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.
    to chafe a cable
  4. (intransitive) To rub; to come together so as to wear by rubbing; to wear by friction.
    • (Can we date this quote by Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      the troubled Tiber chafing with her shores
    • (Can we date this quote by Longfellow and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      made its great boughs chafe together
  5. (intransitive) To be worn by rubbing.
    A cable chafes.
  6. (intransitive) To have a feeling of vexation; to be vexed; to fret; to be irritated.
    • (Can we date this quote by Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      He will chafe at the doctor's marrying my daughter.
    • 1996, Jim Schiller, Developing Jepara in New Order Indonesia, page 58:
      Many local politicians chafed under the restrictions of Guided Democracy […]

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Spanish

Verb

chafe

  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.
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