Crossword-Solution: CHAFES 6 letters, 18 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

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Rubs raw 1 answer
Rubs irritatingly 1 answer
Makes sore, in a way 1 answer
Makes sore from friction 1 answer
Makes sore by rubbing 1 answer
Irritates by rubbing 1 answer
Is galling 1 answer
Is abrasive 2 answers
Shows irritation 2 answers
Shows impatience 2 answers
Causes friction 2 answers
Becomes annoyed 2 answers
Rubs 3 answers
Frets. 7 answers
Abrades 8 answers
Rubs the wrong way 11 answers
Annoys 29 answers
Irritates 31 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEAER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CHAFES (5)

But when he thinks that he is the sufferer of the wrong, then he boils and chafes, and is on the side of what he believes to be justice; and because he suffers hunger or cold or other pain he is only the more determined to persevere and conquer.
Plato's Republic Plato 2008
Leave we the common crofts, the vulgar thorpes, Each in its tether Sleeping safe in the bosom of the plain, Cared-for till cock-crow: Look out if yonder be not day again Rimming the rock-row! That’s the appropriate country; there, man’s thought, Rarer, intenser, {10} Self-gathered for an outbreak, as it ought, Chafes in the censer.
Introduction to Robert Browning Hiram Corson 2008
Modern skeptical Paris, that scoffs at all creeds and chafes impatiently under any rule, will sit to-day docile and complaisant, charmed by the melody of a poet’s voice; its passions lulled or quickened, like Alexander’s of old, at the will of a modern Timotheus.
The Ways of Men Eliot Gregory 2008
The phrase EQUALITY OF FORTUNES chafes people, as if it referred to a condition of the other world, unknown here below.
What is Property? P. J. Proudhon 1995
XXIX Of dry topped oaks they seemed two forests thick, So did each host with spears and pikes abound, Bent were their bows, in rests their lances stick, Their hands shook swords, their slings held cobbles round: Each steed to run was ready, prest and quick, At his commander’s spur, his hand, his sound, He chafes, he stamps, careers, and turns about, He foams, snorts, neighs, and fire and smoke breathes out.
Jerusalem Delivered Torquato Tasso 1995

Quotes with CHAFES (2)

These observations bring out the fact that, whenever liberty is regarded merely as the power to do something which it is desired to do, the tyrant need only base himself on the desires of the masses to suppress the liberties cherished by a few. But can anyone fail to see that the very concrete problem here posed is the problem of the sation of satisfactions, and not the problem of liberty at all? How, then, has it come about that we have drifted away from what we were discuss…
Bertrand De Jouvenel Sovereignty
Empathy isn't just something that happens to us - a meteor shower of synapses firing across the brain - it's also a choice we make: to pay attention, to extend ourselves. It's made of exertion, that dowdier cousin of impulse. Sometimes we care for another because we know we should, or because it's asked for, but this doesn't make our caring hollow. This confession of effort chafes against the notion that empathy should always rise unbidden, that genuine means the same thing a…
Leslie Jamison The Empathy Exams: Essays
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 30 times in crossword archives (1967–2024).