Wear away by rubbing

Usage examples of chafe.

The bandaged hand was still dry, though the bindings keeping his Grace in the saddle had chafed a sore in one wrist.

I pretended to be perfectly indifferent about Chullunder Ghose, standing silently beside him while they tied his leg to mine and seeming not to notice when they beat him until he yelled because he pulled his leg away when the rope touched the skin it had chafed the day before.

What chafed Clyde most was the fact that his vacation had expired today.

He chafed at the necessity of entrusting his fate to a courageous slip of a girl who had already done more for him than he had any right to ask.

Blackthorn chafed at his own inability to take some of the burden of caring for the child upon himself.

A strip of whalebone had worked loose and she had a sore, chafed place at her waist.

The wine made the handkerchief pink as a rose, and her head, where I chafed it, grew crimson.

Bruising and chafing in a band approximately four inches wide just below the sternum.

On the inner thighs bruising and chafing, contusions having oozed blood.

The Tibetan assumed an air of indifference, chafing his wrists where the cords had hurt him a bit and obeying without comment when I told him to stand in front of me.

I was minded to hit him to teach him manners, but Chullunder Ghose came to his rescue, having watched with deliberate interest, as he sat with his shoes off, chafing tired feet.

Murdoch would be chafing now at being left behind to watch over young Philippe, just as he had been left behind that fateful night in Valletta.

Violet, who, having dropped onto the sofa, was occupied with ruefully chafing her injured member.

Even without dismounting, I could see the place where two other horses had stood, chafing the dry earth here and there with impatient hooves.

He fretted and fumed, chafing at the tedium, and then, as the long shadows stretched across the yard, subsided into a wretched silence.