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if skin chafes, or if something chafes it, it becomes painful because the thing is rubbing against it 擦痛；擦得红肿 - [intransitive] chafe (at/under something) (formal)
to feel annoyed and impatient about something, especially because it limits what you can do （尤指因受限制而）恼怒，烦恼，焦躁 He soon chafed at the restrictions of his situation. 他很快便因为处处受到限制而感到恼火。 🔊🔊 Young people often go through a phase of chafing under parental control. 年轻人经常在父母的控制下经历磨擦的阶段。
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘make warm’): from Old French chaufer ‘make hot’, based on Latin calefacere, from calere ‘be hot’ + facere ‘make’.