Definition for Chafing:

• The red excoriations which occur in consequence of the friction of parts, or between the folds of the skin, especially in fat or neglected children. Washing with cold water and dusting with hair-powder is the best preventive. When occurring between the nates and in the region of the perinaeum, from long walking, -Intertri’go pod'icis, Proctal’gia intertrigino'sa, -it is vulgarly designated by the French-Entrefesson.

Synonyms for Chafing:

• adj.

  •impatient (adjective)
  • quicktempered,
  • more chafing,
  • more unindulgent,
  • most unindulgent,
  • un indulgent,
  • more straining,
  • hot tempered,
  • in tolerant,
  • racing motor,
  • head long,
  • racing ones motor,
  • racing one motor,
  • in-tolerant,
  • quick tempered,
  • more appetent,
  • most straining,
  • most appetent,
  • un-indulgent,
  • on pins needles,
  • most chafing,
  • head-long.
  •painful (adjective)
  • unbearable,
  • acute,
  • odious,
  • throbbing,
  • bothersome,
  • withering,
  • horrendous,
  • harrowing,
  • oppressive,
  • excruciating,
  • Cramping,
  • arduous,
  • disagreeable,
  • grueling,
  • painful,
  • hurtful,
  • bitter,
  • cruel,
  • stabbing,
  • crushing,
  • uncomfortable,
  • insufferable,
  • tormenting,
  • burdensome,
  • cutting,
  • inflaming,
  • biting,
  • annoying,
  • stinging,
  • aching,
  • piercing,
  • distressful,
  • Torturing.,
  • anguishing,
  • trying,
  • unpleasant,
  • woeful,
  • torturing,
  • Irksome,
  • Besetting,
  • Gnawing,
  • agonizing,
  • grievous,
  • wrenching,
  • troublesome,
  • miserable,
  • offensive,
  • severe.

• n.

  •abrasion (noun)
  • scuffings,
  • chafings.
  •feeling (noun)
  • chafing.
  •friction (noun)
  • resistance,
  • abrasion.
  •pain (noun)
  • irritation,
  • pain,
  • bruise,
  • infliction,
  • crick,
  • injury,
  • Back Ache,
  • malaise,
  • rack,
  • sting,
  • ache,
  • throe,
  • sore,
  • pang,
  • spasm,
  • torture,
  • distress,
  • hurt,
  • throb,
  • suffering,
  • grief,
  • agony,
  • misery,
  • earache,
  • affliction,
  • Migraine,
  • torment,
  • headache,
  • anguish,
  • bite,
  • inflammation,
  • stitch,
  • stab,
  • wrench,
  • smarting,
  • gripe,
  • painfulness,
  • burn,
  • discomfort,
  • wound,
  • cramp.

• v.

  •aggravating (verb)
  • exasperating,
  • badgering,
  • Discomposing,
  • Bedeviling,
  • Enraging,
  • exacerbating,
  • needling,
  • Arousing,
  • perturbing,
  • Harrying,
  • baiting,
  • infuriating,
  • Rankling,
  • upsetting,
  • troubling,
  • antagonizing,
  • vexing,
  • irking,
  • teasing,
  • Bothering,
  • pestering,
  • hassling,
  • nagging,
  • Envenoming,
  • peeving.
  •chafing (verb)
  • Abrading,
  • irritating,
  • disturbing,
  • grinding,
  • scrubbing,
  • Resisting,
  • Fretting,
  • grating,
  • aggravating,
  • rasping,
  • wearing,
  • scraping,
  • Harassing.
  •paining (verb)
  • Afflicting,
  • stitching,
  • Paining,
  • hurting,
  • racking,
  • Discomforting,
  • distressing.

• Other synonyms:

  •Other relevant words:
  • agitated,
  • crash,
  • reproofing,
  • cranky,
  • amazing,
  • disagreement,
  • harass,
  • Bedevilling,
  • displeasing,
  • tantalising,
  • boring,
  • pestilential,
  • deterioration,
  • gravy boat,
  • calorific,
  • lambasting,
  • excoriating,
  • fevered,
  • disobliging,
  • rallying,
  • creamer,
  • scratch,
  • abut,
  • pesty,
  • anxiety,
  • cauterant,
  • uneasy,
  • provoking,
  • rankle,
  • inflame,
  • burning,
  • sugar bowl,
  • septic,
  • irk,
  • eagerness,
  • worrying,
  • compote,
  • scouring,
  • inconveniencing,
  • mettlesome,
  • Carking,
  • clangour,
  • vex,
  • Urticating,
  • Plaguing,
  • hurried,
  • wear,
  • fidgeting,
  • exasperate,
  • goading,
  • Angering,
  • anxious,
  • uneasiness,
  • Rebuking,
  • petulant,
  • annoy,
  • roughness,
  • tiresome,
  • swollen,
  • disturb,
  • nervous,
  • disquieting,
  • antagonize,
  • vexatious,
  • hasty,
  • irritable,
  • excited,
  • squirmy,
  • provoke,
  • choking,
  • trouncing,
  • enrage,
  • heated,
  • in a stew,
  • dressing,
  • Wincing,
  • incensing,
  • perplexing,
  • bewildering,
  • hot,
  • sweat,
  • coding,
  • edgy,
  • electric,
  • eager,
  • scratching,
  • impetuous,
  • tenderness,
  • itchy,
  • pestiferous,
  • feverish,
  • lecturing,
  • tetchy,
  • punch bowl,
  • agog,
  • polishing,
  • antsy,
  • Incommoding,
  • scuff,
  • eroding,
  • eating away,
  • abrasive,
  • washing away,
  • pesky,
  • tedious,
  • mystifying,
  • goad,
  • displease,
  • soreness,
  • adjoin,
  • chafe,
  • Reprimanding,
  • taunting,
  • angry,
  • reaching,
  • inflamed,
  • grazing,
  • rebarbative,
  • ablation,
  • restless,
  • grinding away,
  • lather,
  • clash,
  • Riling,
  • discord,
  • restive,
  • fussy,
  • uninteresting,
  • damage,
  • breathless,
  • fretful,
  • fretfulness,
  • stew,
  • restlessness,
  • scrape,
  • Fuming,
  • excite,
  • scratchy,
  • galling,
  • chafed,
  • worrisome,
  • fidgety,
  • abrade,
  • berating,
  • unquiet,
  • athirst,
  • baffling,
  • dispute,
  • Jawing,
  • Nettling,
  • infuriate,
  • mercurial,
  • warming,
  • mug,
  • haste,
  • scolding,
  • exciting,
  • kindling,
  • skittish,
  • skirmish,
  • wearisome,
  • scrub,
  • Fraying,
  • clank,
  • maddening,
  • irritated,
  • puzzling,
  • Twitting,
  • Scuffing,
  • Weathering,
  • red,
  • accessing,
  • butter dish,
  • irritate,
  • wasting away,
  • Nonplussing,
  • pitcher,
  • Gagging,
  • erasure,
  • Ruffling,
  • stupefying,
  • corroding,
  • galvanic,
  • excitement,
  • nettlesome,
  • filing,
  • Sanding,
  • attrition,
  • wear and tear,
  • pettish,
  • frustrating,
  • Remonstrating,
  • heating,
  • raging,
  • on edge,
  • erosion,
  • infected,
  • concerning,
  • bother,
  • conflict,
  • itching,
  • tantalizing,
  • dissension,
  • clang,
  • hopped-up,
  • Mantling,
  • corrosion,
  • Devilling,
  • aggravate.

Paraphrases for Chafing:

• Independent

  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    burning, rubbing.

Antonyms for Chafing:

• adj.

  • Other antonyms:
    pleasing, delightful.

Chafing Sentence Examples:

• A chafing temper began to heat my blood; I gathered my bridle and dropped one hand on my hatchet.

• I dare say you are chafing at it, but it is not often I trouble you with one.

Hypernym for Chafing:

• n.

  • feeling
    intertrigo.

Hyponym for Chafing:

• n.

  • feeling
    soreness, Rawness, tenderness.