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How to pronounce “chafe”
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Pronunciation guide for chafe
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of chafe with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 4 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- To raise brave girls, encourage adventure
and it began to chafe,
- Definition summary
- Heat excited by friction.
Example 1 of 4
How to pronounce chafe
To raise brave girls, encourage adventure

and it began to chafe,
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “chafe”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- Heat excited by friction.
- Injury or wear caused by friction.
- (archaic, countable, uncountable) Vexation; irritation of mind; rage.
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.
- (transitive, figurative) To excite passion or anger in; to fret; to irritate.
- (transitive) To fret and wear by rubbing.
- (intransitive) To rub; to come together so as to wear by rubbing; to wear by friction.
- (intransitive) To be worn by rubbing.
- (intransitive, figurative) To have a feeling of vexation; to be vexed; to fret; to be irritated.
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