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Meanings of chafe in inglés

portugués
irritação
catalán
vexació

Anger produced by some annoying irritation.

irritação
portugués
importunar
catalán
amoïnar
español
provocar

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

provocar
portugués
arranhar
catalán
esgarrapar
español
rozar

Cause friction.

rozar
español
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 chafe in inglés
1
Many Uighurs chafe at Chinese government controls on their culture and religion.
Reuters
2
Nonentities are never slandered; they chafe because they are left in peace.
The Collection of Antiquities
3
The strings crossed, and the upper began to chafe the lower savagely.
Peeps at Many Lands: Japan
4
His terrible headache made him chafe at any prolonging of the scene.
Captivating Mary Carstairs
5
But perhaps inevitably, the bonds between the team eventually start to chafe.
The Irish Times
6
And now he began to chafe because he was delaying the march.
Pluck on the Long Trail; Or, Boy Scouts in the Rockies
7
Should your feet chafe, rub tallow on the inside of your boots.
Micah Clarke / His Statement as made to his three grandchildren ...
8
I lift one on to my lap and begin to chafe it.
Waiting for the Barbarians
9
She must suspect, and guess, and chafe, and bear it all alone.
Far from the Madding Crowd
10
She began to listen for his coming, to chafe at his delay.
The Safety Curtain, and Other Stories
11
But she did chafe at the lack of social life in Calhoun.
American-made: the enduring legacy of the wpa : when fdr put the...
12
She smiled pitifully, and came near Andy to chafe his cold hands.
Then Marched the Brave
13
Why then dost thou speak in a sense to chafe my blood?
The Fair Maid of Perth; Or, St. Valentine's Day
14
He pulls off his dog collar, which is, frankly, beginning to chafe.
Pandaemonium
15
Many Uighurs chafe at government curbs on their culture and religion.
Reuters
16
Many there chafe under Chinese restrictions on their culture and religion.
Reuters
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Translations for chafe
Chafe through the time
Chafe across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common