GRE Word List

CHAFE

irritate

The meaning of the word chafe is irritate.

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WordMeaning
disabuseto free from error, misconception, or fallacy (see fallacy
deployto extend (a military unit) especially in width
emetican agent that induces vomiting
terminalleading ultimately to death : fatal
derelictabandoned especially by the owner or occupant
foregoto go before : precede
derideto laugh at or insult contemptuously
brawnthe flesh of a boar
revileto subject to verbal abuse : vituperate
etymologythe history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language