to chafe
5
5.6
- verb
- /tʃeɪf/
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- After running for hours, I noticed my thighs began to chafe from the friction of my shorts.
- chafe the skin
- chafe the wire
- chafed and red
Doesn't, you know, chafe you or something like that.
- Doesn't, you know, chafe you or something like that.
- It has changed the way that I run because I used to have one of those like bands that would wrap around my arm and I would stick my phone in that, but it would like chafe my arm.
Examples
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Where your cheeks get chafed by the frost on the inside of your scarf.
Blog text (16) -
The dog was extremely irritating; my ankle was beginning to chafe from the action of its tongue.
Fiction book (1999) -
But when I walk this much, I chafe.
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This disco suit is making me chafe.
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His nipples still chafe under his clothes.
Fiction book (1996) -
The cotton of the halter rope chafed the palms of my hands.
Fiction book (2000) -
Her face felt sticky, and her shoulder hurt where the handles of her handbag chafed her sunburn.
Fiction book (1995) -
His back ached from the hard ride of the buckboard, and his hands chafed where they gripped the reins.
Fiction book (1991) -
Already the stiff, knee-high boots of faux leather were beginning to chafe his toes, and he hadn't walked more than a hundred meters.
Fiction book (2000) -
To prevent chafed skin, many of the old-time Mocko Jumbies wore long stockings and no shoes.
Academic text (1999)
Synonyms
262
1.0
To rub the skin with nails to relieve an itch or cause soreness
60
1.6
To injure the skin by rubbing it against something rough
17
3.4
Make a part of the body sore and uncomfortable, often causing redness or itching
1
8.1
To make a body part sore by rubbing
Antonyms
How Irritating
Surface Forms
Etymology
Chafe comes from the Latin calefacere meaning 'to make warm', from the idea of rubbing to produce heat and irritation. So to chafe (as a verb) is to rub until the skin becomes sore or irritated.