/ tʃeɪf; NAmE / verb
1.
if skin chafes , or if sth chafes it, it becomes sore because the thing is rubbing against it :
[ v ]
Her wrists chafed where the rope had been.
[ vn ]
The collar was far too tight and chafed her neck.
2.
[ v ] chafe (at / under sth) ( formal ) to feel annoyed and impatient about sth, especially because it limits what you can do :
He soon chafed at the restrictions of his situation.
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WORD ORIGIN
late Middle English (in the sense make warm ): from Old French chaufer make hot, based on Latin calefacere , from calere be hot + facere make.