Chafed vs Grazed - What's the difference?
chafed | grazed |
(chafe)
Heat excited by friction.
Injury or wear caused by friction.
Vexation; irritation of mind; rage.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.5:
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
* Longfellow
To be worn by rubbing.
To have a feeling of vexation; to be vexed; to fret; to be irritated.
* Shakespeare
* 1996 , Jim Schiller , Developing Jepara in New Order Indonesia , page 58:
(graze)
The act of grazing; a scratching or injuring lightly on passing.
A light abrasion; a slight scratch.
To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for.
* Jonathan Swift
* 1999:' Although it is perfectly good meadowland, none of the villagers has ever '''grazed animals on the meadow on the other side of the wall. — ''Stardust , Neil Gaiman, page 4 (2001 Perennial Edition).
(ambitransitive) To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture); to browse.
* Alexander Pope
* 1993 , John Montroll, Origami Inside-Out (page 41)
To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing.
* Shakespeare
To rub or touch lightly the surface of (a thing) in passing.
* 1851 ,
To cause a slight wound to; to scratch.
To yield grass for grazing.
* Francis Bacon
As verbs the difference between chafed and grazed
is that chafed is past tense of chafe while grazed is past tense of graze.chafed
English
Verb
(head)chafe
English
Noun
(-)- 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)- the troubled Tiber chafing with her shores
- made its great boughs chafe together
- A cable chafes .
- He will chafe at the doctor's marrying my daughter.
- Many local politicians chafed under the restrictions of Guided Democracy
References
* * (wikipedia "chafe") ----grazed
English
Verb
(head)graze
English
Noun
(en noun)Verb
(graz)- a field or two to graze his cows
- Cattle graze in the meadows.
- The lambs with wolves shall graze the verdant mead.
- The bird [Canada goose] is more often found on land than other waterfowl because of its love for seeds and grains. The long neck is well adapted for grazing .
- when Jacob grazed his uncle Laban's sheep
- the bullet grazed the wall
- But in that gale, the port, the land, is that ship’s direst jeopardy; she must fly all hospitality; one touch of land, though it but graze the keel, would make her shudder through and through.
- to graze one's knee
- The sewers must be kept so as the water may not stay too long in the spring; for then the ground continueth the wet, whereby it will never graze to purpose that year.
