Verb (used with object) : He chafed his shoes on the rocks. ,Her collar chafed her neck. ,The dripping of the faucet chafed her nerves. ,to chafe cold hands.    From Dictionary.com. 

Verb (used without object) : His neck began to chafe from the starched collar. ,The horse chafed against his stall. ,He chafed at their constant interruptions.    From Dictionary.com. 

In 1882, Mark Twain chafed at the expense of sending large manuscripts through the mail, a hardship remedied these days by digital files.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mourn Snail Mail? No Way.] Reference

I found the academy to have a lot of extra rules and regulations, and it kind of chafed me.    From Wordnik.com.  [‘Mercenary Is a Slanderous Term’] Reference

And loosed the shatter'd casque, and chafed his hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous Tales of Fact and Fancy Myths and Legends of the Nations of the World Retold for Boys and Girls] Reference

Mr. White, however, chafed at the camera's limitations.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Raj at High Altitudes] Reference

The Baluchs have chafed at Islamabad's treatment for decades.    From Wordnik.com.  ['It's War Now'] Reference

He knelt by her side, and chafed her hands; but it was of no avail.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference

In Washington, he initially chafed at working in a huge bureaucracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Farewell to the Cabinet] Reference

McCain has always chafed at the go-along, get-along culture of Congress.    From Wordnik.com.  [Senator Hothead] Reference

He chafed when people gave his campaign war room credit for electing him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clinton's Growing Pains] Reference

The girl would have been no girl if she had not chafed under this treatment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marcia Schuyler] Reference

Catalonia, and chafed before Perpignan, which they were not allowed to take.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

If Reagan chafed sometimes under his wife's insistent ways, he didn't let on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Capitol Letter: A Storybook Life] Reference

Russians have long chafed over the manner in which Western countries remember World War II.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rise of the Rest] Reference

Other men about him chafed at the restraint; he stood motionless, with eyes a thousand miles away.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

The knowledge of his debt forever chafed Cantwell; Grant resented his companion's lack of gratitude.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference

She divined the reason, and chafed against her cage, like a bird bereft of song, whose wings are cut.    From Wordnik.com.  [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference

But their real bond formed at Chrysler in 1992, as they chafed during Iacocca's final months in office.    From Wordnik.com.  [Just Fine, Thanks] Reference

The lad was immensely proud of his school standing, too, and he chafed sadly at the thought of losing it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chicken Little Jane] Reference

During the debate, some neighbors chafed at the idea of an outsider from Maryland telling them what to do.    From Wordnik.com.  [Developer John Freeman has created a tiny utopia at Kingsley Commons] Reference

The GOP has long chafed under criticism from President Obama and the Democrats that it is "the party of no.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Republicans: From 'party of no' to 'party of stop'] Reference

One possibility: Saddam is planning a new crackdown on Shiites, who have long chafed under the dominant Sunnis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crackdown?] Reference

She squirts a spiral galaxy into the chafed pine floor then balls up the t-shirt and punches into every sneaky crevice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bedbugs] Reference

Her Momma kept her inside, while her Poppa took her brothers hunting, and she chafed to be treated as her brothers 'equal.    From Wordnik.com.  [S OWN STORY(1)] Reference

Gray chafed at the Fenty-Rhee operating style, which he said lacked transparency and a commitment to public participation.    From Wordnik.com.  [D.C. school chief Rhee's next move probably toward the door] Reference

Israel chafed at the spectacle of his growing strength, especially his arsenal of chemical weapons and his nuclear program.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Blunderer From Baghdad] Reference

These were mostly restless adventurers, of a class common at all periods of history, who chafed under the yoke of authority.    From Wordnik.com.  [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference

One of these fragments was a bow-stem chafed and water-soaked, the iron ring-bolt secured by a nut -- both covered with rust.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873] Reference

Working at the NIH in the 1990s, Venter chafed under the direction of James Watson, the codiscoverer of the structure of DNA.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Race] Reference

After unification, many easterners chafed at submitting to a stricter shop-closing law than they had lived under in East Germany.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Freedom To Shop] Reference

Mr. ROBERT LEVIN (Mozart Scholar, Harvard University): Mozart really chafed under that kind of thing because life isn't like that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mozart's Last Symphony: The Giant 'Jupiter'] Reference

We poured water over him, we chafed his hands, we called him by every tender name, but his insensibility remained deep and profound.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island] Reference

To speak the truth, I was chafed a little; still, these worldly railleries could not touch me, and had no effect on my determination.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Tata's chairman chafed at the suggestion that his firm should be held responsible for the state of pollution in India — or the planet.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Green is a Mini?] Reference

Sharif Husein had long chafed under Turkish suzerainty, in spite of his subsidy and the deference which policy compelled them to accord him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pan-Islam] Reference

Anything in the shape of a burden about his body chafed him; and this being so, I need scarcely add that his equipment was always on the largest scale.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference