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We found 30 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word chafe:
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General dictionaries General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. chafe: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
  2. chafe: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  3. chafe: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  4. chafe: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
  5. Chafe: Wiktionary [home, info]
  6. chafe: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  7. chafe: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  8. chafe: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  9. chafe: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  10. chafe: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  11. chafe: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  12. chafe: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
  13. Chafe (Martian crater), Chafe (crater), Chafe (crater on Mars), Chafe: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  14. Chafe: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  15. chafe: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  16. chafe: Rhymezone [home, info]
  17. chafe: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  18. chafe: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  19. chafe: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  20. chafe: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  21. chafe: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  22. chafe: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  23. chafe: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. chafe: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine dictionaries Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. chafe: Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary [home, info]
  2. chafe: online medical dictionary [home, info]
  3. chafe: Medical dictionary [home, info]

Science dictionaries Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Chafe: Biological Sciences Dictionary [home, info]

Sports dictionaries Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. chafe: Terra.org's Sailing Terms [home, info]

Tech dictionaries Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. chafe: SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language [home, info]

Quick definitions (chafe)

noun:  soreness and warmth caused by friction ("He had a nasty chafe on his knee")
noun:  anger produced by some annoying irritation
verb:  become or make sore by or as if by rubbing
verb:  warm by rubbing, as with the hands
verb:  tear or wear off the skin or make sore by abrading ("This leash chafes the dog's neck")
verb:  feel extreme irritation or anger
verb:  cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
verb:  cause friction
name:  A surname (very rare: popularity rank in the U.S.: #86879)

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Phrases that include chafe:   chafe crater, christopher chafe, dancing with the chafe, paul chafe

Words similar to chafe:   rub, annoyance, chafed, chafing, fray, fret, gall, scratch, vexation, abrade, fume, irritate, more...


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