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.
Army commanders chafed at what they took to be inadequate and incompetent government support of military efforts to end the rebellion.
Though compliant, he chafed and built up a grudge that he would never relinquish.
If it had been suspended by the shoulders, its weight would have likely exhausted (and chafed) its wearer.
In a related case, several other inmates described the way in which the handcuffs burned and chafed their skin during their placement on the post.
Burchfield was an unflagging advocate for the virtues of watercolors, and chafed at the popular misconception of them as fragile and impermanent.
He chafed somewhat under military discipline in the battalion, and actually left school for a short while because of this.
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.
But it had been so hard that it had chafed her daughter's shoulders.
