CHAFING

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Soreness or irritation of the skin caused by friction

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Hypernyms ("chafing" is a kind of...):

rawness; soreness; tenderness (a pain that is felt (as when the area is touched))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chafing"):

intertrigo (chafing between two skin surfaces that are in contact (as in the armpit or under the breasts or between the thighs))

-ing form of the verb chafe