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Meanings of chafe in English
Synonyms
Examples for "scratch"
Examples for "scratch"
1
The change would allow companies to build new commercial airports from scratch.
2
Problem is, with a new virus, scientists have to start from scratch.
3
This company was started from scratch and was delivered within a year.
4
Or he'll take a new sheet of paper and start from scratch.
5
The South Sudan government had to almost build the country from scratch.
1
A headstrong approach will almost definitely rub others up the wrong way!
2
But that's the rub: there are tens of thousands of civilians there.
3
It was arousing to feel another's power rub against yours that way.
4
Stew tomatoes slowly one-half hour; rub through strainer; heat and add soda.
5
You have beaten Austria, it is true; but Russia-thereis the rub.
1
I thought it was the result of the fray in the Tower.
2
As always, political issues are starting to enter the fray, he said.
3
Analysts say the army is loath to step into the political fray.
4
They had been able to join the fray at a critical moment.
5
They had been, in their time, in the thick of the fray.
1
We fret over which areas will get flooded as sea levels rise.
2
Unfortunately, for now, there is far more to fret about than celebrate.
3
The lily may grow; the man must fret and toil and spin.
4
We fret about mass extinction, but not enough to change our habits.
5
Don't fret, because no qualifications are necessary to trade as an accountant.
1
It was the last drop in the cup of gall, she thought.
2
The cares of the world did not gall the shoulders of Mme.
3
She often ate the bread of sorrow steeped in wormwood and gall.
4
The gall of the bear is used as medicine internally and externally.
5
Snake gall bladder proves especially effective in dissolving phlegm and improving vision.
Usage of chafe in English
1
Many Uighurs chafe at Chinese government controls on their culture and religion.
2
Nonentities are never slandered; they chafe because they are left in peace.
3
The strings crossed, and the upper began to chafe the lower savagely.
4
His terrible headache made him chafe at any prolonging of the scene.
5
But perhaps inevitably, the bonds between the team eventually start to chafe.
6
And now he began to chafe because he was delaying the march.
7
Should your feet chafe, rub tallow on the inside of your boots.
8
I lift one on to my lap and begin to chafe it.
9
She must suspect, and guess, and chafe, and bear it all alone.
10
She began to listen for his coming, to chafe at his delay.
11
But she did chafe at the lack of social life in Calhoun.
12
She smiled pitifully, and came near Andy to chafe his cold hands.
13
Why then dost thou speak in a sense to chafe my blood?
14
He pulls off his dog collar, which is, frankly, beginning to chafe.
15
Many Uighurs chafe at government curbs on their culture and religion.
16
Many there chafe under Chinese restrictions on their culture and religion.
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Translations for chafe
Catalan
Chafe through the time
Chafe across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common