Verb

(chaf)

To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.

To excite passion or anger in; to fret; to irritate.

To fret and wear by rubbing; as, to chafe a cable.

To rub; to come together so as to wear by rubbing; to wear by friction.

* Shakespeare

the troubled Tiber chafing with her shores

* Longfellow

made its great boughs chafe together

To be worn by rubbing.

A cable chafes .

To have a feeling of vexation; to be vexed; to fret; to be irritated.

* Shakespeare

He will chafe at the doctor's marrying my daughter.

* 1996 , Jim Schiller , Developing Jepara in New Order Indonesia , page 58:

Many local politicians chafed under the restrictions of Guided Democracy

Verb

To admonish in blame; to reproach angrily.

1591' ''And yet I was last '''chidden for being too slow.'' — Shakespeare, ''The Two Gentlemen of Verona , .

1598' ''If the scorn of your bright eyne / Have power to raise such love in mine, / Alack, in me what strange effect / Would they work in mild aspect? / Whiles you '''chid me, I did love'' — Shakespeare, ''As You Like It , .

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(obsolete) To utter words of disapprobation and displeasure; to find fault; to contend angrily.

1611' ''And Jacob was wroth, and '''chode with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me? — Genesis 31:36 KJV.

(ambitransitive) To make a clamorous noise; to chafe.

* Shakespeare

As doth a rock against the chiding flood.

* Shakespeare

the sea that chides the banks of England