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Chafe vs Rasp - What's the difference?

chafe | rasp | Synonyms |

Chafe is a synonym of rasp.


As verbs the difference between chafe and rasp

is that chafe is while rasp is to use a rasp.

As a noun rasp is

a coarse file, on which the cutting prominences are distinct points raised by the oblique stroke of a sharp punch, instead of lines raised by a chisel, as on the true file.

chafe

English

Noun

(-)
  • Heat excited by friction.
  • Injury or wear caused by friction.
  • Vexation; irritation of mind; rage.
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.5:
    • Like a wylde Bull, that, being at a bay, / Is bayted of a mastiffe and a hound / […] That in his chauffe he digs the trampled ground / And threats his horns […].

    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

    References

    * * (wikipedia "chafe") ----

    rasp

    English

    (wikipedia rasp)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A coarse file, on which the cutting prominences are distinct points raised by the oblique stroke of a sharp punch, instead of lines raised by a chisel, as on the true file.
  • The sound made by this tool when used, or any similar sound.
    • the rasp of her perpetual cough
  • (obsolete) The raspberry.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • Set sorrel amongst rasps , and the rasps will be smaller.
    Hypernyms
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    Verb

  • To use a rasp.
  • To make a noise similar to the one a rasp makes in use; to utter rasps.
  • To work something with a rasp.
    • to rasp''' wood to make it smooth; to '''rasp bones to powder
  • (figurative) To grate harshly upon; to offend by coarse or rough treatment or language.
    • Some sounds rasp the ear.
    His insults rasped my temper.

    Anagrams

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