to chafe

Examples

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• As the wind picked up, she chafed her cold hands to protect them from the chill.

• Here, let me chafe your hands... are they warming up any?

  Fiction book (2000)

• So you gotta chafe up your hands a little , for chrissake . . . . . . like the rest of us .

  All the King's Men (2006)

• The man then went out into the street and hired two laborers, ordering them to "chafe the body of the supposed dead lady" while he watched.

  Academic text (2014)

• She chafed her hands together to warm them up on a cold day.

• After working outside for hours, he chafed his hands to regain feeling in his fingers.

Synonyms

W

to warm

vsto chafe

488 1.0

To make or become less cold

is achieved specifically by rubbing and not by other heating methods

R

to rub hands together

vsto chafe

9 2.0

To move your hands quickly against each other to warm them

is done by rubbing to produce warmth often using the hands

Antonyms

C

to cool

256 1.0

To make or become less warm

C

to chill

84 1.0

To make food or drink cold, often in the fridge

How Warm

to chafe

1 5.6

to rub

600 1.0

to pat

110 1.0

to touch

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

Etymology