chafing
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English
[edit]Verb
[edit]chafing
- present participle and gerund of chafe
Noun
[edit]chafing (plural chafings)
- The act by which something is chafed.
- 1853, The Popular Educator: Volume 3, page 325:
- The constant and irresistible pressure of such a ponderous mass in motion must occasion certain rubbings and chafings against the rugged bottoms and projecting sides of the rocks amid which they move.
Translations
[edit]the rubbing together of objects
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