chafed

  • 11chafe — verb 1) the collar chafed his neck Syn: abrade, graze, rub against, gall, scrape, scratch; Medicine excoriate 2) material chafed by the rock Syn: wear away/down, erode, abrade, scour, scrape away …

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  • 12chafe — [[t]tʃeɪf[/t]] v. chafed, chaf•ing, n. 1) to wear away by rubbing; abrade 2) to make sore by rubbing 3) to irritate; annoy 4) to warm by rubbing: to chafe cold hands[/ex] 5) to rub with frictional force: The horse chafed against his stall[/ex] 6) …

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  • 13chafe — I. verb (chafed; chafing) Etymology: Middle English chaufen to warm, from Anglo French chaufer, from Vulgar Latin *calfare, alteration of Latin calefacere, from calēre to be warm + facere to make more at lee, do Date: 14th century transitive verb …

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  • 15India — /in dee euh/, n. 1. Hindi, Bharat. a republic in S Asia: a union comprising 25 states and 7 union territories; formerly a British colony; gained independence Aug. 15, 1947; became a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations Jan. 26, 1950.… …

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  • 16raw — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. crude; unprepared, uncooked; undisciplined, unexperienced; skinned, scraped, abraded; bleak, piercing; harsh; naked; untrained; unpolished, boorish. See cold, unskillfulness, newness, unpreparedness …

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  • 17abrade — abrade, excoriate, chafe, fret, gall mean to affect a surface by rubbing, scraping, or wearing away. Abrade usually implies rubbing or scraping by something hard or harsh: when the surface rubbed or scraped is soft, injury results, but when it… …

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  • 18chafe — UK [tʃeɪf] / US verb Word forms chafe : present tense I/you/we/they chafe he/she/it chafes present participle chafing past tense chafed past participle chafed 1) [intransitive] to feel annoyed and impatient about something that stops you doing… …

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  • 19saddle sore — noun 1. an open sore on the back of a horse caused by ill fitting or badly adjusted saddle • Syn: ↑gall • Derivationally related forms: ↑gall (for: ↑gall) • Hypernyms: ↑animal disease …

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  • 20Expire — Ex*pire , v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Expired}; p. pr & vb. n. {Expiring}.] [L. expirare, exspirare, expiratum, exspiratum; ex out + spirare to breathe: cf. F. expirer. See {Spirit}.] 1. To breathe out; to emit from the lungs; to throw out from the… …

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