0 present participle of chafe
2 to be or become annoyed or lose patience because of rules or limits:
We have been chafing under petty regulations for too long.
For me, a young scholar chafing under self-imposed limitations, he offered a model of the maturing and transforming senior scholar.
Finally, cryptic sites may also protect the parasite from the client's own attempts to clean itself, such as by chafing.
Chafing under the recent wave of regulatory initiatives, many corporations and trade associations channeled funding into think tanks that allowed these messages to be honed and disseminated.
Nobody expects them to turn the oil tanker round overnight, but my constituents are chafing at the bit.
Does he suggest that she is chafing under that restriction, or wishes to change it?
I understand that the county boroughs are chafing at the bit to get more decisions taken at district level.
That would surely mean a life of unhappiness for both, chained together and chafing at their links.
During this century, the giant has begun to stir, chafing against the chains.
