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chafes

chafes is the plural of chafe.

chafes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of chafe.

Meaning of chafe

Noun

chafe (countable and uncountable, plural chafes)

  1. Heat excited by friction.
  2. Injury or wear caused by friction.
  3. (archaic) Vexation; irritation of mind; rage.
    • 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 […]1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

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Phrases with chafes

Questions about chafes

What is chafes the plural of?
Chafes is the plural of chafe.

Words near chafes in the dictionary

  1. chafens
  2. chafer
  3. chaferies
  4. chafers
  5. chafery
  6. chafes
  7. chafes at the bit
  8. chafesome
  9. chafest
  10. chafeth
  11. chafewax

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