v
(transitive) To rub or wear off; erode.
adj
(obsolete) Rubbed smooth or blank.
n
(obsolete) The substance thus rubbed off; debris.
n
(obsolete) The act of rubbing against.
n
(sports, US) A blemish in an otherwise outstanding achievement.
adj
Worn by rubbing or friction.
v
(transitive) To grind or wear down through friction.
adj
Prevented from growing, by having the bark too firm or close.
v
(transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To beclog with anything clammy or sticky.
v
(transitive) To deck or cover with or as with flakes.
v
(transitive) To bruise; indent.
v
(intransitive) Of fruit or vegetables, to gain bruises through being handled roughly.
v
(intransitive) To show bruises.
n
(dialectal) An angular tear or rent in a piece of cloth.
n
Injury or wear caused by friction.
v
(transitive) To make chafed
n
Alternative form of chaffwax [(UK, law, historical) A chancery officer who fitted wax for sealing writs and other documents.]
n
The act by which somebody is chaffed; a teasing.
v
(intransitive) Of the skin, to split or flake due to cold weather or dryness.
adj
Obsolete form of chapped. [(of skin) Dry and flaky due to excessive evaporation of water from its surface.]
n
(informal) Chafing on the inner thighs caused by the legs rubbing together.
v
(intransitive) To form a scar.
v
(intransitive) To form a scar.
v
To stick, like boots in mud
v
To clog, as with glutinous or viscous matter.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To make or become clammy.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To make cloam.
v
Alternative form of cloam [(transitive, obsolete) To make cloam.]
v
(obsolete) To concrete into lumps; to clot.
n
The wearing away of surface material.
n
A coarse sieve or screen.
v
To gash the flesh, e.g. of a raw fish, to make it crisper when cooked.
v
(transitive) To wear off the skin of; to chafe or flay.
n
A piece of flaked material.
n
A thin piece that is chipped or peeled off from the surface of something else.
v
(intransitive) To be worn away; to chafe; to fray.
n
(obsolete) The act of rubbing with an unguent.
n
The rubbing of one object or surface against another.
v
(transitive, archaic, chiefly Britain, dialectal) To chafe or rub (something).
v
(archaic) To rub, chafe.
v
(obsolete) To rub or wear by rubbing; to chafe.
v
To rub, especially to rub onto one surface placed upon another surface that is textured, in order to create a mottled or patterned area on the first surface.
v
To chafe, to rub or subject to friction; to create a sore on the skin.
adj
Having gashes; slashed.
n
A harsh scraping or cutting; a grating.
n
The loose material that comes from something being grated.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To pierce (something) with a weapon; to wound, to stab.
n
The act of rubbing something into the skin etc.
n
Attrition caused by things rubbing together.
n
(medicine, dated) Chafing or dermatitis occurring between two folds of skin.
n
A part broken off; a fragment.
n
The act or process of lapping.
n
One who, or that which, mashes.
n
(geology) A crack formed in the surface of mud sediment as it dries and contracts
v
(transitive) To notch, cut, or indent (cloth, etc.) with a stamp.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To rub over.
n
(medicine) The destruction of a soft growth by rubbing, as with a brush or harsh sponge; curettage, grattage, scraping.
v
(obsolete) To rub along the surface of; to graze.
v
(rare) Chiefly followed by out: to scrape or scratch (something); to obliterate.
n
(archaic) The act of scraping.
n
The act of rasping as with a file.
n
(UK, dialectal, possibly obsolete) A mark.
v
(transitive) To rub something against (a second thing).
v
(transitive) To apply by rubbing.
n
A scurf or scabby disease, especially of the scalp.
v
(intransitive) To form a scar.
n
(figuratively, by extension) The long-term psychological consequences of a negative event.
n
The act of scarifying: raking the ground harshly to remove weeds, etc.
v
To scratch, etch, burn, or cut designs into one's skin as a form of body modification.
n
(countable, uncountable) Damage, harm, hurt, injury.
n
A sloppily cut groove, furrow, or trench, characterised by the presence of refuse material from which it was cut.
n
A form of graffiti that is scratched or etched into a surface, especially one of glass or plexiglass.
adj
Referring to something that has been scratched or marked by contact with another object.
n
One who, or that which, sizzles.
v
(transitive) To injure the skin of.
n
A small amount of something; a drop in the bucket; a shred.
n
(originally Ireland, informal) Fragments or splintered pieces; numerous tiny disconnected items.
n
One who, or that which, smudges.
v
(transitive, obsolete, social, esp. Regency England) To ignore as a social snub.
n
A crack or longitudinal fissure.
v
(transitive) To cause to feel a prickling or mildly stinging sensation.
n
(obsolete) Damage, detriment; loss.
n
(figuratively) A hurt to a person's feelings, reputation, prospects, etc.
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