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Antonyms for chafed

Grammar : Verb
Spell : cheyf
Phonetic Transcription : tʃeɪf

Definition 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

Synonyms for chafed

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