| chafe | (verb) warm by rubbing, as with the hands | - |
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| (verb) tear or wear off the skin or make sore by abrading | Synonyms: excoriate |
| (verb) cause friction | Synonyms: fray, fret, rub, scratch |
| (verb) cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations | Synonyms: annoy, bother, devil, get at, get to, gravel, irritate, nark, nettle, rag, rile, vex |
| (verb) feel extreme irritation or anger | - |
| (verb) become or make sore by or as if by rubbing | Synonyms: fret, gall |
| chaff | (verb) be silly or tease one another | Synonyms: banter, jolly, josh, kid |
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| chaffer | (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit |
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| (verb) wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.) | Synonyms: haggle, higgle, huckster |