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vt. (及物動詞 transitive verb)



          1.    擦傷,擦破,擦痛

                      Her shoes chafed the skin on her feet.

                      鞋子把她的腳上的皮擦傷了。

          2.    擦熱

                      She chafed her cold hands.

                      她搓熱她冰冷的雙手。

          3.    磨損,磨壞

                      He chafed his shoes on the rocks.

                      他在岩石上磨壞了鞋子。

          4.    惹怒;使焦躁



vi. (不及物動詞 intransitive verb)



          1.    擦傷

          2.    磨擦[(+on/against)]

                      The horse chafed against his stall.

                      馬在廄欄上擦著身子。

          3.    羞惱;焦躁[(+at/under)]

                      He chafed at the delay.

                      他因被耽擱而惱火。



n. (名詞 noun)



          1.    擦傷,擦痛[C]





Dictionary.com



–verb (used with object) 

1. to wear or abrade by rubbing: He chafed his shoes on the rocks. 

2. to make sore by rubbing: Her collar chafed her neck. 

3. to irritate; annoy: The dripping of the faucet chafed her nerves. 

4. to warm by rubbing: to chafe cold hands. 

5. Obsolete. to heat; make warm.  



–verb (used without object) 

6. to become worn or sore from rubbing: His neck began to chafe from the starched (漿硬) collar. 

7. to rub; press with friction: The horse chafed against his stall. 

8. to be irritated or annoyed: He chafed at their constant interruptions.  



–noun 

9. irritation; annoyance. 

10. heat, wear, or soreness caused by rubbing.  



—Idiom

11. chafe at the bit, to become impatient at delay: The work was going very slowly, and he began to chafe at the bit.  



—Synonyms 

3. exasperate, vex, trouble, provoke.





The Columbia Guide to Standard American English



chaff, chafe (vv.)   

 

Chaff (rhymes usually with graph) means "to josh or tease mildly"; 

chafe (rhymes with safe) means "to annoy, to rub against, to vex, or to become irritated." 



Now and then you may also see chafe spelled chaff, as in Dad was chaffing at the delay. 



The Oxford English Dictionary reports examples of this spelling from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, but when inexperienced persons use this spelling today, it’s usually because they are mispronouncing chafe to rhyme with graph.     





Smoke Gets in Your Eyes



So I chaffed them and I gaily laughed

To think they could doubt my love

Yet today my love has flown away

I am without my love





　Dan (Ryan Gosling), coaching basketball and teaching history and civil rights in a free-range style that chafes against the strict core curriculum of his New York City middle school.





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