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chafing
Synonyms and Antonyms of chafing
- learned to ignore those chafing comments that his mother-in-law was constantly making
abrasive, aggravating, annoying, bothersome, carking, disturbing, exasperating, frustrating, galling, irksome, irritating, maddening, nettlesome, nettling, peeving, pesky, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, pesty, plaguey (also plaguy), rankling, rebarbative, riling, vexatious, vexing
Synonyms and Antonyms of chafing
- ill-fitting boots that had badly chafed my heels
- constant stepping on a rope will gradually chafe it, rendering it unsafe for rock climbing
- nothing chafes us so much as those telemarketers who call during the dinner hour
aggravating, annoying, bothering, bugging, burning (up), eating, exasperating, frosting, galling, getting, grating, griping, hacking (off), irking, irritating, itching, narking [British], nettling, peeving, persecuting, piquing, putting out, rasping, riling, ruffling, spiting, vexing
inflaming (also enflaming), provoking, rousing
badgering, baiting, bullyragging (also ballyragging), deviling (or devilling), hagriding, harassing, harrying, pestering, plaguing, teasing
angering, antagonizing, enraging, incensing, infuriating, maddening, rankling, roiling
agitating, discomforting, discomposing, disquieting, distressing, exercising, freaking (out), fretting, perturbing, undoing, unhinging, unsettling, upsetting, worrying
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