chafe

Universal Words verb 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.