Storm vs Chafe - What's the difference?
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Any disturbed state of the atmosphere, especially as affecting the earth's surface, and strongly implying destructive or unpleasant weather.
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A violent agitation of human society; a civil, political, or domestic commotion; violent outbreak.
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(meteorology) a wind scale for very strong wind, stronger than a gale, less than a hurricane (10 or higher on the Beaufort scale).
(military) A violent assault on a stronghold or fortified position.
To move quickly and noisily like a storm, usually in a state of uproar or anger.
To assault (a stronghold or fortification) with military forces.
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.
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* Longfellow
To be worn by rubbing.
To have a feeling of vexation; to be vexed; to fret; to be irritated.
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* 1996 , Jim Schiller , Developing Jepara in New Order Indonesia , page 58:
Storm is a related term of chafe.
As a proper noun storm
is .As a verb chafe is
.storm
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) storm, from (etyl) . Related to (l).Noun
(en noun)- We hear this fearful tempest sing, / Yet seek no shelter to avoid the storm .
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- The proposed reforms have led to a political storm .
- Her sister / Began to scold and raise up such a storm .
Hyponyms
* See alsoCoordinate terms
* (meteorology) breeze, gale, hurricaneDerived terms
* barnstorm * bestorm * duststorm * leafstorm * sandstorm * snowstorm * storm in a tea-kettle * stormlike * stormtrooper * stormy * thunderstorm * windstormSee also
* blizzardEtymology 2
From (etyl) stormen, sturmen, from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- She stormed out of the room.
- Troops stormed the complex.
External links
* (wikipedia) * (projectlink) * 1000 English basic words ----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