chafing
English edit
Verb edit
chafing
- present participle and gerund of chafe
Noun edit
chafing (plural chafings)
- The act by which something is chafed.
- 1853, The Popular Educator: Volume 3, page 325:
- The constant and irresistible pressure of such a ponderous mass in motion must occasion certain rubbings and chafings against the rugged bottoms and projecting sides of the rocks amid which they move.
Translations edit
the rubbing together of objects
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