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Meanings of chafe (chafing) in English

Portuguese
irritação
Catalan
vexació

Anger produced by some annoying irritation.

irritação
Portuguese
importunar
Catalan
amoïnar
Spanish
provocar

To make someone rather angry or impatient; to cause annoyance.

importunar
Portuguese
arranhar
Catalan
esgarrapar
Spanish
rozar

Cause friction.

arranhar
Spanish
rozar

Tear or wear off the skin or make sore by abrading.

rozar
Synonyms
Examples for "excoriate"
Examples for "excoriate"
1
Sang Huin felt their cold Korean scrutiny excoriate him with their looks.
Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America
2
Five days after this period, I again observed a disposition to excoriate.
An Essay on the Application of the Lunar Caustic in the Cure of ...
3
The Fake News Media is crazed because they wanted me to excoriate him.
Radio NZ
4
History will forgive me or excoriate me, as is appropriate.
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
5
Ghastly faces were staring at her, their lips moving in death to excoriate her.
The Last Shot
Usage of chafing in English
1
I heard what sounded like scales of armor chafing together-slate ,ofcourse.
Poe's children: the new horror : an anthology
2
The latter was worked up by the chafing speeches of the Marshal.
My Double Life: The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt
3
The little princess lay in the armchair, Mademoiselle Bourienne chafing her temples.
War and Peace
4
Then might you have seen the Infantes of Carrion in great chafing.
Chronicle of the Cid
5
Her bra is chafing under her arms; it doesn't usually do that.
The blood spilt
6
The same rule applies to chafing upon any part of the body.
How to Camp Out
7
To prevent such chafing the following program should be carefully carried out:
The Mother and Her Child
8
And the first signs of chafing made themselves apparent beneath their armor.
Despoilers of the Golden Empire
9
Within recent years the chafing dish has become very familiar to us.
Mother's Remedies / Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies ...
10
Plainly the recruits were chafing under the lash of the corporal's tongue.
Uncle Sam's Boys with Pershing's Troops / Or, Dick Prescott at G...
11
He walked up and down the parlour chafing like an irritated lion.
Hard Cash
12
He was thinking with the speed of a mind chafing at delay.
The Man in the Twilight
13
As it was, he was chafing himself to death under the restraint.
My Lady Ludlow
14
She then, kneeling down, assisted them in chafing his hands and feet.
Won from the Waves
15
He and I sat by her side chafing her feet and hands.
The Wanderers; Or, Adventures in the Wilds of Trinidad and Orino...
16
She adjusted the chafing strap, rotated the walker and they set off.
Tetrarch (Well of Echoes)
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Translations for chafing
Chafing through the time
Chafing across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common