chafe

chafe is a   Verb

Definition:

[1] To ecxite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm. To rub her temples, and to chafe her skin. Spenser.

[2] To excite passion or anger in; to fret; to irritate. Her intercession chafed him. Shak.

[3] To fret and wear by rubbing; as, to chafe a cable. Two slips of parchment which she sewed round it to prevent its being chafed. Sir W. Scott.

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