Synonyms for chafed

Grammar : Verb

Spell : cheyf

Phonetic Transcription : tʃeɪf

Top 10 synonyms for chafed

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Définition of chafed

Origin : early 14c., chaufen, c.1300, "be provoked;" late 14c. in literal sense "to make warm, to heat," also intransitive, "to grow warm or hot," especially (early 15c.) "to warm by rubbing," from Old French chaufer "heat, warm up, become warm" (12c., Modern French chauffer), from Vulgar Latin *calefare, from Latin calefacere "to make hot, make warm," from calere "be warm" (see calorie) + facere "to make, do" (see factitious).
Figurative sense from late 14c. include now-obsolete "kindle (joy), inspire, make passionate" as well as "provoke, vex, anger." Sense of "make sore by rubbing" first recorded 1520s. Related: Chafed; chafing.

verb rub, grind against
verb annoy

Example sentences :

While Almamen chafed in vain at his arrest, all in the Christian camp was yet still.
Extract from : « Leila, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

But to-day he was fretted and chafed by long waiting for that answer to his letter.
Extract from : « The Incomplete Amorist » by E. Nesbit

De Launay raised his head and chafed his blue and frozen hands.
Extract from : « Louisiana Lou » by William West Winter

Every day he had been away he had fretted and chafed at the thought of what might be happening to her.
Extract from : « The Night Riders » by Ridgwell Cullum

It chafed me consider'ble to think there was a foreign streak in our family.
Extract from : « The Portygee » by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

Her voice had a passionate impatience, as if she chafed at the limitations of the language.
Extract from : « Audrey Craven » by May Sinclair

She had chafed when the barriers rose between her mind and theirs.
Extract from : « Audrey Craven » by May Sinclair

Thus he argued with himself as he walked to and fro, and chafed and fretted as he went.
Extract from : « One Of Them » by Charles James Lever

For Darcy was chafed at a delay he could not see any reason for.
Extract from : « The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. I (of II) » by Charles James Lever

He chafed his hands and arms with brandy; took off his boots and chafed his feet.
Extract from : « Love and Lucy » by Maurice Henry Hewlett

Antonyms for chafed

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