(v. t.) To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.
(v. t.) To excite passion or anger in; to fret; to irritate.
(v. t.) To fret and wear by rubbing; as, to chafe a cable.
(v. i.) To rub; to come together so as to wear by rubbing; to wear by friction.
(v. i.) To be worn by rubbing; as, a cable chafes.
(v. i.) To have a feeling of vexation; to be vexed; to fret; to be irritated.
(n.) Heat excited by friction.
(n.) Injury or wear caused by friction.
(n.) Vexation; irritation of mind; rage.
Example Sentences:
(1) Single New Yorkers have long chafed at the bad maths that means they're sometimes paying twice the rent their coupled-up friends pay; couples can pool their resources and get a nicer place.
(2) Posterior iris chafing by the loop or the optic portion of sulcusfixated posterior chamber lens implants may cause a spectrum of disorders that include iris-pigment epithelial "window defects," pigment dispersion with or without elevation of intraocular pressure, intermittent microhyphemas with transient visual obscurations, and the UGH syndrome.
(3) Warren, a vocal advocate for economic fairness and Wall Street reform, has notably refrained from endorsing former secretary of state Clinton, Senator Bernie Sanders, former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley, former Rhode Island governor Lincoln Chafee or former Virginia senator Jim Webb.
(4) A popular theme in Shin's films - not unlike the Hollywood weepies of the 1950s - concerns the plight of women chafing under the limits of society's expectations, such as The Evergreen Tree (1961), in which Choi played a reform-minded woman struggling against provincialism to teach rural children how to read and write.
(5) All eyes will be watching closely as Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Martin O’Malley, Jim Webb and Lincoln Chafee spar over the economy, environment, foreign policy, labor rights, and more.
(6) What revolution worth its salt can be fuelled by demands of freedom and dignity and not have gender nestled in its beating heart – especially in a country replete with misogyny, religious fundamentalism (of both the Islamic and Christian kind) and which for 60 years has chafed under a hybrid of military-police rule?
(7) The son of long-time Republican senator John Chafee, Lincoln Chafee worked as a blacksmith at harness-racing tracks and served as mayor of Warwick, Rhode Island, before he was appointed to the US Senate in 1999, after his father’s death.
(8) Another Democratic presidential candidate, former Rhode Island governor Lincoln Chafee, also appeared to refer to Clinton, telling the DNC: “After 30 years in public service, I’ve had no scandals.
(9) The implantation site has been relocated to reduce chafing by clothing and the post-operative wound dressing technique has been altered to minimise catheter movement.
(10) The son of longtime Rhode Island Republican senator John Chafee, the presidential candidate’s biography brags that he “attended Montana State University horse shoeing school in Bozeman and worked as a farrier at harness racing tracks for seven years”.
(11) Of the other candidates for the Democratic nomination, former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley (3%), former Virginia senator and Reagan navy secretary Jim Webb (2%) and former Rhode Island governor Lincoln Chafee (1%) all scored less than “uncommitted” (6%) and “not sure” (8%).
(12) There are long-running tensions between the state and the large Uighur Muslim population, with many in the community chafing at cultural and religious restrictions and some aspiring to independence.
(13) Major figures in Erbil have chafed at gains made by their Syrian neighbours, particularly during the battle for the Yazidi centre of Sinjar , and responses have included cutting back access to the region across the mutual border.
(14) Sample lyric: “It’s barbaric but hey, it’s home.” Most potential for chafing Facebook Twitter Pinterest Steven Pasquale and Kelli O'Hara in The Bridges of Madison County.
(15) Having chafed for years at their own tradition being denied a hearing, they should resist the temptation to turn the tables.
(16) This progressive loss may be related to chronic uveitis from iris chafing by the implant or to direct mechanical damage to the corneal endothelium.
(17) You certainly could make the case that that might have led to a different outcome – it might have hastened the departure of President Assad, but it also would have subjected the United States to a whole host of more significant risks, including more significant outlays of funds to fund essentially a war in Syria .” Lincoln Chafee, the former Rhode Island governor who is polling below 1% in the Democratic race, said the US “unfortunately bears a great deal of responsibility for the refugee crisis because of our invasion of Iraq and the spread of chaos in the region as a result”.
(18) O’Malley, with 0.8%, trailed the former navy secretary and Virginia senator Jim Webb (1.3%) but was in front of the former Rhode Island governor Lincoln Chafee , who had 0.3%.
(19) After the early exit of no-hopers Lincoln Chafee and Jim Webb, Hillary Clinton is running against three remaining opponents for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016 : Bernie Sanders, Martin O’Malley and herself.
(20) Beijing loyalists in Hong Kong’s legislature will say, ‘We need to protect the integrity of the motherland, you’re not allowed to say things like ‘Hong Kong is not China.’’ They worry these sentiments will spread to places like Tibet and Xinjiang, western Chinese provinces with large populations of ethnic minorities and a history of chafing under Beijing’s yoke.
Chide
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) To rebuke; to reprove; to scold; to find fault with.
(p. pr. & vb. n.) Fig.: To be noisy about; to chafe against.
(v. i.) To utter words of disapprobation and displeasure; to find fault; to contend angrily.
(v. i.) To make a clamorous noise; to chafe.
(n.) A continuous noise or murmur.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was also chided for failing to roll out a 2011 pilot scheme to put doors on fridges in its stores.
(2) 'We need deeds, not words': bombs fall on Aleppo as MPs debate Syria Read more He also chided the UK foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, for calling for demonstrations outside the Russian embassy in London , saying it was necessary to be mindful of the welfare of diplomatic staff in Britain’s Moscow embassy.
(3) Even critical outlets end up promoting the Kremlin’s line by reporting what is essentially non-news Whenever RIA would quote Navalny’s statements in its campaign news reports, as any normal news outlet would do when covering a political campaign, Putin’s deputy chief of staff Alexei Gromov would call the agency’s editor in chief, Svetlana Mironyuk, and chide her.
(4) The MPs also chided the health secretary, Andrew Lansley , for peddling a price tag for his white paper proposals that was produced for the last government: "It is unhelpful for the government to continue to cite the £1.7bn figure, as it does not relate to specific proposals."
(5) Joe Grice, chief economist at the UK's Office for National Statistics, is always chiding journalists for not loooking at the long term trend in GDP data, and maybe we need to take the same healthy scepticism to today's figures from Japan 9.03am BST Telecoms giants enter tariff battle Bloomberg is reporting that Nokia and Ericsson have told the EU to drop a probe into unfair subsidies for Chinese phone makers.
(6) Iran's president strongly chided the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Wednesday, saying it was discrediting itself by siding with "absurd" US accusations.
(7) They say she is doing debate prep, but she is just resting.” He also chided Clinton for saying he had entered her personal space on the debate stage in St Louis last Sunday.
(8) Ali responded to the gentle chiding, and appreciated room in which to move verbally.
(9) Over the past two days Obama has been gently chiding Europe to do more in Afghanistan on the basis that he has recalibrated his Afghan strategy to put more emphasis on civilian reconstruction and the drawing in of key regional players, such as Iran and Pakistan.
(10) When I went there I was surprised to see all these overweight people on the streets – but when I came back home, McDonald’s was everywhere and there were all these bigger people on our own streets.” As we chatted, she chided her partner for his fondness for fried food and huge portions, then confided that the worst aspect of the change in her homeland was seeing so many overweight children.
(11) Even on foreign policy, the central issue upon which Republicans have attacked Obama and Clinton, as his former secretary of state, she chided her critics for lacking a coherent plan of their own.
(12) Another chided her: 'I just want to tell you how uneducated and stupid you came off.
(13) As Barbara Castle once chided her old pal, Michael Foot, he’s “grown soft on a diet of soft options,” not quite a pacifist (so he says) but opposed to passing wars and the legitimacy of force in a harsh world.
(14) Giving evidence, Murdoch chided Dinsmore for going "a little too far in his enthusiasm".
(15) As well as chiding the chancellor, Balls was critical of Moody's, and warned it was important not get carried away with what it or other ratings agencies said.
(16) The UK, in a statement to the conference, confirmed its unerring commitment to the ATT, and chided those who might criticise treaty violators because “this could deter others joining”.
(17) Then he chides her: "There is a danger of which I would ... warn you.
(18) Prickly, protective of her private life and not averse to calling journalists to chide them for what she claims are errors – such as reporting that Hollande dyed his hair – Trierweiler has been dubbed "Tweetweiler" for tweeting her disapproval whenever she feels wronged by the media.
(19) That was the main theme of my MacTaggart lecture last year in Edinburgh, in which I chided the government’s consistent running down of the BBC.
(20) As archbishop of Buenos Aires, the man who was still known then as Jorge Bergoglio – the son of Italian immigrants – once chided a church full of politicians for being corrupt and not doing enough for the poor.