Crossword-Solution: CHAFING
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Chafing | p pr. & vb. n. | of Chafe |
| Chafing | v. t. | The act of rubbing, or wearing by friction; making by rubbing. |
We have 21 clues for the answer “CHAFING”
| Clue | Answers |
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| soreness or irritation of the skin caused by friction | 1 answer |
| Rubbing the wrong way? | 3 answers |
| rubbing off | 4 answers |
| corrosion | 6 answers |
| attrition | 10 answers |
| Wearing away. | 14 answers |
| erosion | 21 answers |
| Itchy | 23 answers |
| Abrasion | 27 answers |
| grinding | 31 answers |
| DRIVING someone crazy | 31 answers |
| Itching | 34 answers |
| rubbing | 37 answers |
| Irritating | 43 answers |
| Fretful | 45 answers |
| susceptibility | 60 answers |
| dissension | 72 answers |
| Conflict | 74 answers |
| Impatient | 77 answers |
| Dish | 83 answers |
| Friction | 88 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEERA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CHAFING (5)
After he had turned the lamp low under the chafing-dish, he remained standing, looking pensively down at the food on the table.
Saturday Up before dawn! The night watchman called us--six of us--and we made coffee in a chafing dish (you never saw so many grounds!) and walked two miles to the top of One Tree Hill to see the sun rise.
Then night fell in the midst of a heavy silence, sometimes broken by the cries of the pelican and other night-birds, and the noise of the waves breaking upon the shore, chafing against the rocks, or the panting of some far-off steamer beating the waters of the Gulf with its noisy paddles.
Now and then as he fought and struggled with the vast masses of ebony, rosewood, and mahogany on the upper floor of the music store, raging and chafing at their inertness and unwillingness, while the whiskey pirouetted in his brain, he would mutter to himself: “An' I got to do this.
Last night, when you did not come back, I could not bear it—I could not! Only let me be with you, and see your face, Harry; I don’t ask for more.” Her eyelids were hot, heavy, and thick with excessive weeping, and the delicate rose-red of her cheeks was disfigured and inflamed by the constant chafing of the handkerchief in wiping her many tears.
Quotes with CHAFING (3)
I am tired, Beloved, of chafing my heart against The want of you; Of squeezing it into little inkdrops, And posting it.
They say the path of true love never runs smooth. Well, Luke and my true love's path didn't run at all, it limped along in new boots that were chafing its heels. Blistered and cut, red and raw, every hopping, lopsided step, a little slice of agony.
To embrace the message of Christmas is to throw off my hedonistic rebellion and bow before the chafing reality that I can't save myself, and in that very act to be suddenly taken aback in that I've stumbled upon the very freedom I've longed for in the very place I'd least expected it.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2017).