chafe
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6.7
- noun
- /tʃeɪf/
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- I could feel the chafe of whiskers on my collar.
- free of chafe
- protected from chafe
- rough chafe
We know how painful chafing can be when you're wearing your bathing suit all day.
- We know how painful chafing can be when you're wearing your bathing suit all day.
- But this is incredible if you are needing any sort of relief from any sort of chafe anywhere.
- Yeah, get that chafe on the on the backside of it from keeping it under your belt buckle.
- Like I said, they have the always stretch and they are chafe free, so chafe free zone here.
- You get the Shed travel bag and the patented high performance reduced Chafing Manscaped boxers.
- As soon as you run, those pants are crusted to that chafing and it rips the skin right off everything.
- There's zero chafe stretch swim trunks feature quick drying four way stretch fabric made sustainably from recycled plastic bottles.
Examples
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I've never had any chafing with this material.
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That peg is really making the skin chafe.
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We know how painful chafing can be when you're wearing your bathing suit all day.
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Hours later, Celeste toweled off, the chafe of the terry cloth adding a healthy glow to the new skin.
Fiction book (1994) -
After a long hike, I noticed a painful chafe on my thighs from the friction of my shorts.
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The chafe caused by the tight elastic band left a red mark on my skin.
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He applied cream to soothe the chafe under his armpits after a long day in the sun.
Synonyms
14
5.4
Soreness on the skin that happens when it rubs against something
11
2.3
A painful, tender feeling in a part of the body when touched
How Sore
Surface Forms
Etymology
Chafe comes from an old Latin word calefacere that means 'to make warm', because people used to rub things to make them warm and that rubbing can hurt the skin. So a chafe is the sore, red place you get from rubbing or friction.