chafen

See also: Chafen

English

Etymology

From chafe +‎ -en.

Verb

chafen (third-person singular simple present chafens, present participle chafening, simple past and past participle chafened)

1. (transitive) To make chafed
   • 1854, William Bacon Stevens, The Bow in the Cloud, page 152:

     Faith, picturing to its view this cross, the Holy Spirit engraving it on the heart in spiritual regeneration, the whole soul receiving him whom it lifts up, as its "wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption," gently and effectually transforms the spirit, that was chafened and restless, into the "meekness and gentleness of Christ."

   • 1874, William Carew Hazlitt, A Select Collection of Old English Plays, volume 3, page 39:

     Tush, tush, it avails nought to chafen, or to chide, […]

   • 1908, Mount Houmas, A Strange Record, page 112:

     And while this was being accomplished, Time was healing all chafened surfaces and rounding off all rough and broken edges with his slow but unfailing tools […]

   • 1963, Suśruta, Kunja Lal Bhishagratna (Kaviraj), An English Translation of the Sushruta Samhita, page 471:

     In a case of the head being hung back a little on one side, the shoulder should be lifted up by pressing it (with the hand) after chafening it, so as to bring the head at the door of the passage and the child should be drawn straight downward.

Middle English

Verb

chafen

1. Alternative form of chaufen

Spanish

Verb

chafen

1. inflection of chafar:
   1. third-person plural present subjunctive
   2. third-person plural imperative