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Insult vs Chafe - What's the difference?

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Insult is a related term of chafe.


As verbs the difference between insult and chafe

is that insult is (obsolete|intransitive) to behave in an obnoxious and superior manner (over, against) while chafe is .

As a noun insult

is an action or form of speech deliberately intended to be rude.

insult

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (obsolete) To behave in an obnoxious and superior manner (over, against).
  • *, II.3.3:
    • thou hast lost all, poor thou art, dejected, in pain of body, grief of mind, thine enemies insult over thee, thou art as bad as Job […].
  • To offend (someone) by being rude, insensitive or insolent; to demean or affront (someone).
  • (obsolete) To leap or trample upon; to make a sudden onset upon.
    • (Shakespeare)

    Synonyms

    * (to offend) abuse, affront, offend, slight * See also

    Antonyms

    *compliment

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An action or form of speech deliberately intended to be rude.
  • * Savage
    • the ruthless sneer that insult adds to grief
  • * 1987 , Jamie Lee Curtis, A Fish Called Wanda :
    • To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people!
  • Anything that causes offence/offense, e.g. by being of an unacceptable quality.
    • The way the orchestra performed tonight was an insult to my ears.
  • (medicine) Something causing disease or injury to the body or bodily processes.
  • * 2006 , Stephen G. Lomber, Jos J. Eggermont, Reprogramming the Cerebral Cortex (page 415)
  • * 2011 , Terence Allen and Graham Cowling, The Cell: A Very Short Introduction , Oxford 2011, p. 96:
    • Within the complex genome of most organisms there are alternative multiple pathways of proteins which can help the individual cell survive a variety of insults , for example radiation, toxic chemicals, heat, excessive or reduced oxygen.
  • (obsolete) The act of leaping on; onset; attack.
    • (Dryden)

    Synonyms

    * (deliberatedly intended to be rude) abuse (uncountable), affront, offence (UK)/offense (US), pejorative, slam, slight, slur * (thing causing offence by being of unacceptable quality) disgrace, outrage * See also

    Antonyms

    *compliment

    Related terms

    * insolence * insultation

    Anagrams

    * * English heteronyms

    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") ----