Fiery vs Chafed - What's the difference?
fiery | chafed |
Of or relating to fire.
Burning or glowing.
* {{quote-book, year=2006, author=(Edwin Black)
, chapter=1, title= Inflammable or easily ignited.
Having the colour of fire.
Hot or inflamed.
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, chapter=5, title= Tempestuous or emotionally volatile.
Spirited or filled with emotion.
(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 an adjective fiery
is of or relating to fire.As a verb chafed is
(chafe).fiery
English
Adjective
(en-adj)Internal Combustion, passage=Blast after blast, fiery' outbreak after ' fiery outbreak, like a flaming barrage from within,
The Lonely Pyramid, passage=The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom.
Derived terms
* fiery crossAnagrams
* *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