Chafe: alternatives and connections

To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to tease; to ruffle in mind; to vex; as, I was annoyed by his remarks.

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To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to tease; to ruffle in mind; to vex; as, I was annoyed by his remarks.

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To annoy; to trouble; to worry; to perplex. See Pother.

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To annoy; to trouble; to worry; to perplex. See Pother.

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The Evil One; Satan, represented as the tempter and spiritual of mankind.

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The Evil One; Satan, represented as the tempter and spiritual of mankind.

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Small stones, or fragments of stone; very small pebbles, often intermixed with particles of sand.

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Small stones, or fragments of stone; very small pebbles, often intermixed with particles of sand.

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To render null and void.

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To render null and void.

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A plant of the genus Urtica, covered with minute sharp hairs containing a poison that produces a stinging sensation. Urtica gracitis is common in the…

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A plant of the genus Urtica, covered with minute sharp hairs containing a poison that produces a stinging sensation. Urtica gracitis is common in the…

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To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.

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To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.

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To render turbid or muddy; to stir up; to roil.

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To render turbid or muddy; to stir up; to roil.

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To to/s back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet.

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To to/s back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet.

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To rub or wear off; to waste or wear away by friction; as, to abrade rocks.

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Rubbed smooth.

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To join or unite to; to lie contiguous to; to be in contact with; to attach; to append.

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Trouble; vexation; also, physical pain or smart of a sore, etc.

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The bile; -- formerly supposed to be the seat and cause of irascibility.

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A close union or junction of bodies; a touching or meeting.

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To gnaw into; to wear away; to fret; to consume.

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To make not pleased; to excite a feeling of disapprobation or dislike in; to be disagreeable to; to offend; to vex; -- often followed by with or at.…

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Trial, as a test or experiment.

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To perceive by the touch; to take cognizance of by means of the nerves of sensation distributed all over the body, especially by those of the skin; t…

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Anger; wrath.

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To render null and void.

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To join, or come in contact with; esp., to come in contact with by approach from an opposite direction; to come upon or against, front to front, as d…

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The quality or state of being raw.

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The quality or state of being sore; tenderness; painfull; as, the soreness of a wound; the soreness of an affliction.

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The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective).

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To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.

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Having heat in a moderate degree; not cold as, warm milk.

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The act of aggravating, or making worse; -- used of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; something additional t…

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The feeling of one who is displeased; irritation or uneasiness of the mind, occasioned by anything that counteracts desire or command, or which oppos…

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The act of exasperating or the state of being exasperated; irritation; keen or bitter anger.

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The act of frustrating; disappointment; defeat; as, the frustration of one's designs

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The act of harassing, or state of being harassed; worry; annoyance; anxiety.

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The act of irritating, or exciting, or the state of being irritated; excitement; stimulation, usually of an undue and uncomfortable kind; especially,…

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A cotton fabric, figured in the loom, -- used as a dress goods for women and children, and for vestings, etc.

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To mingle in due proportion; to prepare by combining; to modify, as by adding some new element; to qualify, as by an ingredient; hence, to soften; to…

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An engine for casting stones.

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To contend with; to oppose actively; to counteract.

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of Beset

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See Chivy, v. t.

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To goad, drive, hunt, throw, or pitch.

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See 1st Frith.

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Jet, the mineral.

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Serving to gratify; agreeable.

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To fatigue; to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts; esp., to weary by importunity, teasing, or fretting; to cause to endure excessive burdens o…

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To strip; to lay waste; as, the Northmen came several times and harried the land.

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To trouble; to disturb; to render uneasy; to interfere with; to vex.

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That which smites, wounds, or troubles; a blow; a calamity; any afflictive evil or torment; a great trail or vexation.

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To call forth; to call into being or action; esp., to incense to action, a faculty or passion, as love, hate, or ambition; hence, commonly, to incite…

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To become, or be, rank; to grow rank or strong; to be inflamed; to fester; -- used literally and figuratively.

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To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.

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To subject (a body) to the action of something moving over its surface with pressure and friction, especially to the action of something moving back…

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To subject (a body) to the action of something moving over its surface with pressure and friction, especially to the action of something moving back…

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To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to tease; to ruffle in mind; to vex; as, I was annoyed by his remarks.

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The act of annoying, or the state of being annoyed; molestation; vexation; annoy.

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To annoy; to trouble; to worry; to perplex. See Pother.

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The Evil One; Satan, represented as the tempter and spiritual of mankind.

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Affray; broil; contest; combat.

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See 1st Frith.

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The bitter, alkaline, viscid fluid found in the gall bladder, beneath the liver. It consists of the secretion of the liver, or bile, mixed with that…

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Small stones, or fragments of stone; very small pebbles, often intermixed with particles of sand.

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To render null and void.

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A plant of the genus Urtica, covered with minute sharp hairs containing a poison that produces a stinging sensation. Urtica gracitis is common in the…

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To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.

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To render turbid or muddy; to stir up; to roil.

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To subject (a body) to the action of something moving over its surface with pressure and friction, especially to the action of something moving back…

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To rub and tear or mark the surface of with something sharp or ragged; to scrape, roughen, or wound slightly by drawing something pointed or rough ac…

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To to/s back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet.

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The act of vexing, or the state of being vexed; agitation; disquiet; trouble; irritation.

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