Crossword-Solution: CHAFED
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Chafed | imp. & p. p. | of Chafe |
We have 18 clues for the answer “CHAFED”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Was irritated. | 1 answer |
| Vexed or rubbed | 1 answer |
| Sore from rubbing the wrong way | 1 answer |
| Made sore by rubbing | 1 answer |
| Abraded by rubbing | 1 answer |
| Caused friction | 1 answer |
| Made sore by abrading | 1 answer |
| Grew impatient | 1 answer |
| Rubbed raw | 2 answers |
| Rubbed | 2 answers |
| Galled. | 3 answers |
| Abraded | 6 answers |
| festered | 6 answers |
| Rubbed the wrong way | 14 answers |
| fretted | 15 answers |
| Vexed. | 26 answers |
| irritated | 86 answers |
| Annoyed | 90 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with CHAFED (5)
She chafed to and fro in rebelliousness, like a caged leopard; her whole soul was in arms, and the blood fired her face.
Built upon a dismal reef of sunken rocks, some league or so from shore, on which the waters chafed and dashed, the wild year through, there stood a solitary lighthouse.
The Prince of Helium chafed and fretted at the slowness of his pursuit, yet he was thankful that the damage was no worse, for now he could at least move more rapidly than on foot.
High into bending and swaying branches he was borne with what seemed to him incredible swiftness, while Tarzan chafed at the slowness of his progress.
The ape-man chafed at the delay, but the European could not swing through the trees as could his more agile and muscular companions, and so the speed of all was limited to that of the slowest.
Quotes with CHAFED (3)
But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes. The heart of a hurt child can shrink so that forever afterward it is hard and pitted as the seed of a peach. Or again, the heart of such a child may fester and swell until it is a misery to carry within the body, easily chafed and hurt by the most ordinary things.
In the future, Martin will recall this night as the first time -- and one of the only times -- he ever saw Germans crying in public, not at the news of a dead loved one or at the sight of their bombed home, and not in physical pain, but from spontaneous emotion. For this brief time, they were not hiding from one another, wearing their masks of cold and practical detachment. The music stirred the hardened sediment of their memory, chafed against layers of horror and shame, and…
If Thecla had symbolized love of which I felt myself undeserving, as I know now that she did, then did her symbolic force disappear when I locked the door of her cell behind me? That would be like saying that the writing of this book, over which I have labored for so many watches, will vanish in a blur of vermillion when I close it for the last time and dispatch it to the eternal library maintained by the old Ultan. The great question then, that I pondered as I watched the fl…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 21 times in crossword archives (1957–2024).