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CHAFED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Painful from having the skin abraded
Synonyms:
chafed; galled
Classified under:
Similar:
painful (causing physical or psychological pain)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb chafe
Context examples:
Oh! answered she, I used the butter to grease those poor trees that the wheels chafed so: and one of the cheeses ran away so I sent the other after it to find it, and I suppose they are both on the road together somewhere.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
"Well, Helen?" said I, putting my hand into hers: she chafed my fingers gently to warm them, and went on—If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
She was appalled by West Egg, this unprecedented place that Broadway had begotten upon a Long Island fishing village—appalled by its raw vigor that chafed under the old euphemisms and by the too obtrusive fate that herded its inhabitants along a short cut from nothing to nothing.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
