Chapped vs Chafed - What's the difference?
chapped | chafed |
(chap)
(of skin) dry and flaky due to excessive evaporation of water from its surface
* 1854 Sir Erasmus Wilson - Healthy skin: a popular treatise on the skin and hair, their preservation and management
* 1913 ,
(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:
As verbs the difference between chapped and chafed
is that chapped is past tense of chap while chafed is past tense of chafe.As an adjective chapped
is dry and flaky due to excessive evaporation of water from its surface.chapped
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(head)- For chapped' lips, or '''chapped''' nipples, the tincture of catechu, or benjamin, ... / For severely ' chapped hands or face, the oxide of zinc ointment or camphor ...
- [...] his nose and his chubby cheeks were chapped and red with cold.
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
