transcription, транскрипция: [ tʃeɪf ]
( chafes, chafing, chafed)
1.
If your skin chafes or is chafed by something, it becomes sore as a result of something rubbing against it.
My shorts were chafing my thighs...
His wrists began to chafe against the cloth strips binding them...
The messenger bent and scratched at his knee where the strapping chafed.
VERB : V n , V against n , V
2.
If you chafe at something such as a restriction, you feel annoyed about it. ( FORMAL )
He had chafed at having to take orders from another...
He was chafing under the company’s new ownership.
VERB : no passive , V at/under/against n / -ing , V at/under/against n / -ing