1 if skin chafes, or if sth chafes it, it becomes sore because the thing is rubbing against it:
[V] Her wrists chafed where the rope had been. * [VN] The collar was far too tight and chafed her neck.
2 [V] ~ (at / under sth) (formal) to feel annoyed and impatient about sth, especially because it limits what you can do:
He soon chafed at the restrictions of his situation. * Young people often go through a phase of chafing under parental control.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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Is chafe a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, chafe is tagged as verb.
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