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say it: chayf
chafe is a verb and noun meaning "become or make sore by or as if by rubbing". It carries 8 recorded senses.
feel extreme irritation or anger
“He was chafing at her suggestion that he stay at home while she went on a vacation”
cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
“Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really bothers me”
“It irritates me that she never closes the door after she leaves”
warm by rubbing, as with the hands
anger produced by some annoying irritation
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for chafe come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.