chafe Betydning & definition

Eksempler på chafe

• I know that to-day he is writhing and chafing at what he considers to be the inadequate methods that have been adopted for destroying the submarine.

• Therefore, it is not only defence that is chafing at national frontiers to-day; industry and technology, the factors which generate wealth and promote prosperity, are displaying a like impatience.

• I have wanted to get something done, and have chafed at the long delay and the great expense in having to listen to every conceivable kind of objector.

• I have no doubt that he is chafing at the fact that he is not able to attend to his responsible duties at this very important period.

• The ceremony is carefully orchestrated by the ship's officers, with some enthusiastic sailors chafing at the degree to which harassment was disallowed.

• He chafed somewhat under military discipline in the battalion, and actually left school for a short while because of this.

• Burchfield was an unflagging advocate for the virtues of watercolors, and chafed at the popular misconception of them as fragile and impermanent.

• Chafe 1994 ties prosodic phenomena such as types of intonation contour to cognitive processes taking place during verbalization.