Words and phrases that have a meaning related to chafe: (172 results)
Often used in the same context:
bristle, scoff, resent, bridled, grumble, chaffed, chaffing, rankled, fret, balking, loathe, irk, cringe, leery, baulk, despise, resentful, anathema, griping, detest, overbearing, wince, complain, grousing, yearn, blanch, disliked, seething, rebelling, mistrusted, recoiled, loosen, bemoan, disdainful, poke fun, oppressive, alienated, constrictive, uncomfortable, angered, railed, aghast, decry, contend, vise, displease, resists, hamstrung, squirm, worry, loath, overprotective, smarting, wary, ingrown, sneer, irritated, burdened, salivate, distrusted, fume, covet, purse strings, laboring, rigid, yoke, infuriating, hackles, riles, uneasy, fussing, meddlesome, kowtowed, criticize, seem, bind, apron strings, thickheaded, miff, disdains, clamoring, obsess, spar, cling, pimpled, bossy, sway, incensed, outraged, umbrage, crave, unpopular, pinched, peeved, weary, grapple, scraggily, contemptuous, unloose, inveigh, unhappy, feedbag, doubting, marching, won, chopping, grudge, heavy, practise, reverberation, splash, staying, agitation, appears, baking, be, bill, bills, bo, boring, bruise, cheer, grolnick, honeybee, sherry, winner, 190, 202, 5-10, 5-20, 79, abilitative, ablative, abstract, abstractable, abstracted, abstruse, acacia, accepted, accusative, acontextual, acrostic
More specific:
aggravation, exasperation, frustration, harassment, irritation, pique, temper, torment
More general:
Also try:abrade, abrase, adjoin, anger, choler, corrade, ire, meet, rub down, rub off, soreness, tenderness, touch, warm
— Adjectives for chafe: great, mighty, sultry, many, impetuous, current, pelting, such, unprofitable, inward, much, more...
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