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# chafed

«chafed» in Mova's school dictionary: **to rub the skin until it becomes sore or raw** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (chafe, chafes, chafed, chafing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To chafe is to rub the skin until it becomes sore or raw. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chafed/#m1)

2) To be chafed is to be annoyed or irritated by something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chafed/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, a crown or collar rubs and hurts the skin; a dog's skin is sore where it has been rubbed

### examples

- The crown chafed her forehead. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chafed/#x1)
- The skin on the dog's neck was chafed and sore. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chafed/#x2)
- His collar chafed all day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chafed/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «chafed» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chafed/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.