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chafingadjective causing annoyancelearned to ignore those chafing comments that his mother-in-law was constantly making abrasive, aggravating, annoying, bothersome, carking, disturbing, exasperating, frustrating, galling, irksome, irritating, maddening, nettlesome, nettling, peeving, pesky, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, pesty, plaguey(also plaguy), rankling, rebarbative, riling, vexatious, vexing burdensome, discomforting, displeasing, disquieting, distressing, importunate, importune, inconveniencingangering, enraging, infuriatingbrattish, bratty, mischievous, offensive, troublesome, upsettingdistractive, painful, stressful, tiresome, troubling, trying, worrisomebiting, grating, jangling, jarring, spiny, thorny delightful, pleasing chafingverbpresent participle of chafeto make sore by continued rubbingill-fitting boots that had badly chafed my heels abrading, excoriating, fretting, galling, irritating grazing, scraping, scratchingburning, inflaming(also enflaming)flaying, peeling, skinning to damage or diminish by continued frictionconstant stepping on a rope will gradually chafe it, rendering it unsafe for rock climbing abrading, corrading, eroding, fraying, frazzling, fretting, galling, rasping, rubbing, wearing filing, gnawing, grating, grazing, grinding, nibbling, sandblasting, sandpapering, scouring, scraping, scuffing, shavingerasing, reducing, rubbing out, wearing out, wiping (away)biting, breaking down, breaking up, chewing, corroding, decomposing, disintegrating, dissolving, eatinghoning, sharpening, whetting to disturb the peace of mind of (someone) especially by repeated disagreeable actsnothing chafes us so much as those telemarketers who call during the dinner hour aggravating, annoying, bothering, bugging, burning (up), eating, exasperating, frosting, galling, getting, grating, griping, hacking (off), irking, irritating, itching, narking(British), nettling, peeving, persecuting, piquing, putting out, rasping, riling, ruffling, spiting, vexing hassling, hecklingnagginginflaming(also enflaming), provoking, rousingbadgering, baiting, bullyragging(also ballyragging), deviling(or devilling), hagriding, harassing, harrying, pestering, plaguing, teasingangering, antagonizing, enraging, incensing, infuriating, maddening, rankling, roilingagitating, discomforting, discomposing, disquieting, distressing, exercising, freaking (out), fretting, perturbing, undoing, unhinging, unsettling, upsetting, worryingaffronting, insulting, miffing, offending, outraging getting one's goat, getting on one's nerves, getting to, rubbing the wrong way, setting one's teeth on edge, sticking in one's craw, wearing on appeasing, conciliating, mollifying, obliging, pacifying, placating, propitiatingdelighting, gladdening, gratifying, pleasing, satisfyingassuring, cheering, comforting, consoling, contenting, quieting, reassuring, solacing, soothing |