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Seethe vs Chafe - What's the difference?

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Seethe is a related term of chafe.


As verbs the difference between seethe and chafe

is that seethe is (label) to boil while chafe is .

seethe

English

Alternative forms

* (l)

Verb

  • (label) To boil.
  • *:
  • *:A none syr kay sayd / here is good mete for vs for one meale / for we had not many a day no good repast / And so that veneson was rosted baken and soden / and so after souper somme abode there al that nyghte
  • *1933 , Herbert Danby, The Mishnah , p.289:
  • *:When he had cooked or seethed the Peace-offering, the priest took the sodden shoulder of the ram and one unleavened cake out of the basket and one unleavened wafer and put them upon the hands of the Nazirite and waved them.
  • *1960 , James Enge, Travellers' Rest :
  • *:“Seethe some of that in Gar Vindisc's good water and bring it to us. Bread, too, as long as you don't make it from shellbacks.”
  • To boil vigorously.
  • To foam in an agitated manner, as if boiling.
  • To be in an agitated or angry mental state, as if boiling.
  • To buzz with activity.
  • 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") ----