1 to be or become annoyed or lose patience because of rules or limits:
We have been chafing under petty regulations for too long.
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.
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摩擦, (使)擦傷, (使)擦破…
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摩擦, (使)擦伤, (使)擦破…
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rozar, irritarse, impacientarse…
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kural ve sınırlamalara kızmak, rahatsızlık duymak, kaşıyarak acıtmak…
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irriter, s’impatienter…
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odřít, rozedřít, být nervózní…
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gnave(s), irritere(s), harmes…
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