| chafe | (noun) anger produced by some annoying irritation | Synonyms: annoyance, vexation |
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| (noun) soreness and warmth caused by friction | - |
| (verb) warm by rubbing, as with the hands | - |
| (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 |
| chafed | (adjective) painful from having the skin abraded | Synonyms: galled |
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| chafeweed | (noun) weedy perennial of north temperate regions having woolly foliage and dirty white flowers in a leafy spike | Synonyms: Gnaphalium sylvaticum, wood cudweed |
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| chaff | (noun) foil in thin strips; ejected into the air as a radar countermeasure | - |
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| (noun) material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds | Synonyms: husk, shuck, stalk, straw, stubble |
| (verb) be silly or tease one another | Synonyms: banter, jolly, josh, kid |
| 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 |
| chaffinch | (noun) small European finch with a cheerful song | Synonyms: Fringilla coelebs |
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| chafflike | (adjective) abounding in or covered with or resembling or consisting of chaff | Synonyms: chaffy |
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| chaffweed | (noun) weedy plant having short dry chafflike leaves | Synonyms: bastard pimpernel, false pimpernel |
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| chaffy | (adjective) abounding in or covered with or resembling or consisting of chaff | Synonyms: chafflike |
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| (adjective) value | - |
| chafing | (noun) soreness or irritation of the skin caused by friction | - |
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| cockchafer | (noun) any of various large European beetles destructive to vegetation as both larvae and adult | Synonyms: May beetle, May bug, Melolontha melolontha |
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