different between rankle vs chafe

English

Etymology

From Middle English ranklen, ranclen, from Old French rancler, räoncler, draoncler (“to ulcerate, to form a boil”), from Old French draoncle (“a boil”), from Latin dracunculus (“little serpent”), diminutive of Latin drac? (“serpent, dragon”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /??æ?.k?l/
• Rhymes: -æ?k?l

Noun

rankle (plural rankles)

1. A festering, embittering object or condition — either mental, or a physical sore or ulcer (rare).
   • 1795, James Harris, First Earl of Malmesbury

     To this the Prince appeared to acquiesce; but I saw it did not please, and left a rankle in his mind.

Verb

rankle (third-person singular simple present rankles, present participle rankling, simple past and past participle rankled)

1. (transitive or intransitive) To cause irritation or deep bitterness.
   • 1890 — Alfred Thayer Mahan, The Influence of Sea Power upon History, chapter IX

     The close proximity of the two countries, the relative positions of their ports, made the naval situation particularly strong; and the alliance which was dictated by sound policy, by family ties, and by just fear of England's sea power, was further assured to France by recent and still existing injuries that must continue to rankle with Spain. Gibraltar, Minorca, and Florida were still in the hands of England; no Spaniard could be easy till this reproach was wiped out.

   • 1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter XX, [2]

     I stood trembling with agony for the spear was rankling in the wound.
2. (intransitive) To fester.

   a splinter rankles in the flesh

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book I, Canto X

     But yet the cause and root of all his ill,
     Inward corruption and infected sin,
     Not purg'd nor heald, behind remained still,
     And festring sore did rankle yet within […]

   • 1707, Nicholas Rowe, The Royal Convert

     a malady that burns and rankles inward

   • 1796, Edmund Burke, a letter to a noble lord

     This would have left a rankling wound in the hearts of the people.

   • 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, chapter XIV

     You are beside him, sleeping and waking. You search his thoughts. You burrow and rankle in his heart!

   • 1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, XXVI:

     Now blotches rankling, coloured gay and grim, / Now patches where some leanness of the soil's / Broke into moss or substances like boils;

Synonyms

• (to cause irritation): embitter, irritate
• (to fester): fester

Translations

References

Anagrams

• KERNAL, Karlen, lanker

English

Etymology

From Middle English chaufen (“to warm”), borrowed from Old French chaufer (modern French chauffer), from Latin calefacere, calfacere (“to make warm”), from calere (“to be warm”) + facere (“to make”). See caldron.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /t?e?f/
• Rhymes: -e?f

Noun

chafe (uncountable)

1. Heat excited by friction.
2. Injury or wear caused by friction.
3. Vexation; irritation of mind; rage.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.5:

     Like a wylde Bull, that, being at a bay, / Is bayted of a mastiffe and a hound / […] That in his chauffe he digs the trampled ground / And threats his horns […]

4. (archaic) An expression of opinionated conflict.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:argument

   • 1830, Joseph Plumb Martin, The Adventures Of A Revolutionary Soldier

     When we returned we found the poor prisoner in a terrible chafe with the sentinel for detaining him, for the guard had been true to his trust.

Derived terms

• chafen

Translations

Verb

chafe (third-person singular simple present chafes, present participle chafing, simple past and past participle chafed)

1. (transitive) To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.
2. (transitive) To excite passion or anger in; to fret; to irritate.
3. (transitive) To fret and wear by rubbing.

4. (intransitive) To rub; to come together so as to wear by rubbing; to wear by friction.
   • 1855, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Song of Hiawatha

     made its great boughs chafe together

5. (intransitive) To be worn by rubbing.

6. (intransitive) To have a feeling of vexation; to be vexed; to fret; to be irritated.
   • 1996, Jim Schiller, Developing Jepara in New Order Indonesia, page 58:

     Many local politicians chafed under the restrictions of Guided Democracy […]

Translations

References

• chafe in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• chafe on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Spanish

Verb

chafe

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of chafar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of chafar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of chafar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of chafar.