Word Finder - chafed

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To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.

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To excite passion or anger in; to fret; to irritate.

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To fret and wear by rubbing.

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to chafe a cable

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To rub; to come together so as to wear by rubbing; to wear by friction.

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To be worn by rubbing.

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A cable chafes.

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To have a feeling of vexation; to be vexed; to fret; to be irritated.

Jackson's voice chafed, barely recognizable, "Let me speak to her."

The inhabitants soon chafed under these restrictions.

This is sensitive skin, however, so you want to be sure it won't get chafed.

There is no doubt that he chafed, in these years, at the slow rate at which his chief, Mr. Balfour, moved in the direction of Tariff Reform; but, though he would have preferred a more whole-hearted acceptance of Mr. Chamberlain's programme, he remained loyal to the Prime Minister.

A tremor of revolt ran through the cities of the south which chafed under the despotism of the Parisian mob.

But his measures speedily gave dissatisfaction to the Argentine or Creole party, who had long chafed under the disabilities of Spanish rule, and who now felt themselves no longer bound by ties of loyalty to a country which was in the possession of the French armies.

Cetywayo had inherited much of the military talent of his uncle Chaka, the organizer of the Zulu military system, and chafed under his father's peaceful policy towards his British and Boer neighbours.

Against the spirit which would treat the church as the mere creature of the state Keble had long chafed inwardly, and now he made his outward protest, asserting the claim of the church to a heavenly origin and a divine prerogative.

The autocrat felt cramped and chafed on all sides by the necessity of posing as a constitutional sovereign; and, while losing something of the old rigidity, he lost very much of the old energy, both in thought and action.

The king chafed against the objections with which his minister opposed wild plans of foreign conquest and inconsiderate concessions to the papacy.

They had never meant to give themselves a master, and they chafed under his hand, which grew continually heavier.

The navy chafed at its inactivity and looked eagerly for some outlet where it could get at grips with its enemy.

So, while he excommunicated Henry of Navarre, and contributed to the League and the Armada, he chafed under his forced alliance with Philip, and looked about for escape.

Preoccupied with his own ideas, he chafed under the indifference of thinkers who had grown blasé in speculation and fancied himself persecuted by a conspiracy of professors of philosophy.

Her elder son, Hyrcanus II., a pliable weakling, was appointed high priest; her younger son, the energetic Aristobulus, who chafed at his exclusion from office, seized some twenty strongholds and with an army bore down upon Jerusalem.

Women with small breasts, who many not need to wear a bra with everyday clothes, may find that prolonged walking or biking leads to chafed nipples.

They can cause chafed skin, back pain and shortness of breath.

During thc first few years of his reign Henry had already been in collision with the ecclesiastical authorities over several such cases; he had chafed at seeing two clerks accused of murder and blackmailing claimed by and acouitted in the church courts; and most of all at the frequency of unlicensed appeals to Romea flagrant breach of one of the three rules laid down by William the Conqueror.

England has always chafed against a family oligarchy, however well it may do its work.

The young man in his clattering chains stepped clumsily to the spot indicated, holding away with one finger the coat collar which chafed his neck, turned his long neck twice this way and that, sighed, and submissively folded before him his thin hands, unused to work.

Any replacement tire will be chafed even more rapidly by the roughened rim edge.

Delicate breast skin, especially the nipples, can also become chafed and sore.

It formed the rallying-ground for the new generation which chafed under the tyranny of a 1?

He was vicepresident of the United States from 1845 to 1849, but the appointment of Buchanan as secretary of state at once shut him off from all hope of party patronage or influence in the Polk administration, and he came to be looked upon as the leader of that body of conservative Democrats of the North, who, while they themselves chafed at the domination of southern leaders, were disposed to disparage all anti-slavery agitation.