0 past simple and past 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 some time the congress had chafed under what it perceived as the president's excessive powers.
More and more, both churchmen and philosophers chafed irritably with early medieval practices of text setting.
Married women, despite their legal position as dependants, similarly chafed at being treated as children rather than as rational adults.
Others chafed at the way a restrictive statute intruded upon the individual's freedom to construct a life according to private dictates rather than the requirements of the state.
He never chafed nor fretted after the fashion of smaller men.
This was customary among some canoeists, who found that the jacket chafed and hampered movement if it was worn over the shoulders.
I chafed against that very often, and without much success.
But it had been so hard that it had chafed her daughter's shoulders.
