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Smoulder vs Chafe - What's the difference?

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Smoulder is a related term of chafe.


As verbs the difference between smoulder and chafe

is that smoulder is while chafe is .

As a noun smoulder

is (obsolete) smoke; smother.

smoulder

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • * 1895 , H. G. Wells, The Time Machine Chapter XI
  • *:I don't know if you have ever thought what a rare thing in the absence of man and in a temperate climate, flames must be. The sun's heat is rarely strong enough to burn even when focussed by dewdrops, as is sometimes the case in more tropical districts. Lightning may blast and blacken, but it rarely gives rise to widespread fire. Decaying vegetation may occasionally smoulder with the heat of its fermentation, but this again rarely results in flames. Now, in this decadent age the art of fire-making had been altogether forgotten on the earth. The red tongues that went licking up my heap of wood were an altogether new and strange thing to Weena.
  • (obsolete) To smother; to suffocate; to choke.
    • (Holinshed)
    (Palsgrave)

    Noun

  • (obsolete) smoke; smother
  • * Gascoigne
    • The smoulder stops our nose with stench.

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    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") ----