Antonyms for chafe
tʃeɪfchafe

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1. chafe

   Antonyms:
   revolve, roll, rotate, turn

   Synonyms:
   bind, grind, slide, slip, stand, stick

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1. chafe

   Antonyms:
   soothe, smooth, coax, calm, humor, console, submit, endure, succumb, crouch, truckle

   Synonyms:
   gall, rub, vex, irritate, chagrin, tease, harass, disappoint, grieve, annoy, worry, calcitrate, re sent, resist, fret, fidget, writhe

Matched Categories

1. • Abrade
   • Displease
   • Feel
   • Irritate
   • Tenderness
   • Warm

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1. chafenoun

   soreness and warmth caused by friction

   "he had a nasty chafe on his knee"

   Synonyms:
   annoyance, vexation

2. annoyance, chafe, vexationverb

   anger produced by some annoying irritation

   Synonyms:
   annoying, pain, worry, pain in the neck, concern, pain in the ass, infliction, bother, irritation, annoyance, headache, vexation, botheration, aggravator

3. chafe, gall, fretverb

   become or make sore by or as if by rubbing

   Synonyms:
   eat into, get at, rile, rankle, devil, irk, nettle, fret, gag, vex, excoriate, irritate, erode, eat away, scratch, bother, annoy, fuss, fray, gall, choke, niggle, rag, nark, grate, get to, rub, gravel

4. chafeverb

   feel extreme irritation or anger

   "He was chafing at her suggestion that he stay at home while she went on a vacation"

   Synonyms:
   get at, rile, devil, nettle, fret, vex, excoriate, irritate, scratch, bother, annoy, fray, gall, rag, nark, get to, rub, gravel

5. annoy, rag, get to, bother, get at, irritate, rile, nark, nettle, gravel, vex, chafe, devilverb

   cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations

   "Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really bothers me"; "It irritates me that she never closes the door after she leaves"

   Synonyms:
   nark, dumbfound, get at, reproof, chide, bait, mystify, urticate, rile, fret, dun, cod, razz, crucify, stick, bedevil, reprimand, reach, amaze, lambaste, devil, get to, rub, tantalise, frustrate, annoy, chew out, beat, lambast, trounce, tease, taunt, roil, access, berate, chew up, disoblige, torment, stupefy, lecture, trouble oneself, agitate, put out, rag, discommode, inconvenience oneself, ride, bewilder, dress down, irritate, tantalize, stir up, rally, make, remonstrate, flummox, incommode, get, baffle, jaw, rebuke, worry, pose, vex, inconvenience, perplex, raise up, bother, gravel, disturb, take to task, fray, gall, puzzle, trouble, bawl out, scratch, nettle, progress to, call on the carpet, commove, twit, excoriate, have words, scold, call down, shake up, nonplus

6. chafe, excoriateverb

   tear or wear off the skin or make sore by abrading

   "This leash chafes the dog's neck"

   Synonyms:
   get at, rile, devil, nettle, objurgate, fret, vex, excoriate, irritate, decry, scratch, bother, annoy, reprobate, fray, condemn, gall, rag, nark, get to, rub, gravel

7. rub, fray, fret, chafe, scratchverb

   cause friction

   "my sweater scratches"

   Synonyms:
   fuss, eat into, itch, excise, gag, choke, scratch up, nark, erode, fret, excoriate, bother, rile, scrub, gravel, strike, rub, inscribe, rankle, get to, eat away, come up, scrape up, scrape, cancel, nettle, gall, call off, get at, engrave, scratch, irritate, annoy, frazzle, niggle, rag, expunge, vex, grate, fray, devil, grave

8. chafeverb

   warm by rubbing, as with the hands

   Synonyms:
   get at, rile, devil, nettle, fret, vex, excoriate, irritate, scratch, bother, annoy, fray, gall, rag, nark, get to, rub, gravel

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1. chafeverb

   Synonyms:
   rub, gall, irritate, fret, fume, rage

How to use chafe in a sentence?

1. Michael Barbaro:

   I think the reason I chafe at the' front page of The Times' is because we're not picking the most important story every day, we're not a newsroom of a thousand people making that decision together. We're a team of people saying this is the most compelling audio story that we think we can tell this day.

2. H Hahn Blavatsky:

   Desire nothing, Chafe not at fate, nor at Nature's changeless laws. But struggle only with the personal, the transitory, the evanescent and the perishable.

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