Chafing

Word CHAFING
Character 7
Hyphenation chaf ing
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Chafing"

What do we mean by chafing?

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

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

To fret and wear by rubbing.

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

To be worn by rubbing.

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

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The word "chafing" in example sentences

I struggled as best I could, but soon I too was bound in chafing rope and hauled up on deck. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This chafing is bound to act and react, producing divers evils and leading to various misfortunes. ❋ Unknown (2010)

My neck muscles have only grown a bit sore from blowing my nose and the chafing from the rough toilet paper is already starting to heal. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Live fuel, hoisted in chafing dishes at the end of long poles, and being seen at a great distance, serves, by the smoke in the daytime and the light at night, as a better signal for march than the sound of ❋ Unknown (1871)

Her jeans, waist-baring low-riders, were rolled up just beyond her calves until Michael (our serene and tan guide for the day) mentioned she might want to roll them back down to avoid "chafing" - the kind of advice you don't ignore. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A senior British lawmaker confessed to making up the condition known as “cello scrotum” — which relates to chafing from the instrument — after reading about another musically-related ailment called “guitarist’s nipple” in the British Medical Journal in 1974. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Thus, as Houlbrooke and many other scholars make clear, Moulsworth was not alone in chafing at the educational limits imposed on women. [ ❋ Unknown (1993)

Apple is contemplating a prepaid unlimited-music option for the iPod and iPhone , but record labels chafing under iTunes' domination of the digital-music market could cut a deal with a company like Omnifone. ❋ Unknown (2008)

'Like the camellia, I suppose,' he replied; and taking his other crutch from Charlotte, he began determinedly to ascend without assistance, resolved to keep Philip a prisoner below him as long as he could, and enjoying the notion of chafing him by the delay. ❋ Charlotte Mary Yonge (1862)

As a physician, I would be remiss if I didn't mention that if your nipples are bleeding and you are not chafing, that is a time to see your doctor as something more serious may be going on. ❋ Dr Lewis Maharam (2012)

It goes to the federal prosecutors who either were fired for their "chafing" at illegal political control of their agendas, or, caving, carrying out a vendetta against Democrats across the country as if this were Stalinist Russia and this but a classic purge. ❋ Unknown (2007)

They will have untimely ripp'd the words "chafing," "flopping," and "riding up my arse" out of your vocabulary. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The kids - or have that, like, kind of chafing at the end of the day or the weekend. ❋ Unknown (2006)

She had some kind of chafing dish and she did some sort of asparagus and fondu. ❋ Unknown (1999)

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