Difference between Chafe and Devil

What is the difference between Chafe and Devil?

Chafe as a verb is to excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm. while Devil as a verb is to annoy or bother; to bedevil.

Chafe

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm. To excite passion or anger in; to fret; to irritate. To fret and wear by rubbing; as, to chafe a cable. To rub; to come together so as to wear by rubbing; to wear by friction. To be worn by rubbing; as, a cable chafes. To have a feeling of vexation; to be vexed; to fret; to be irritated.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Heat excited by friction. Injury or wear caused by friction. Vexation; irritation of mind; rage.

Devil

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To annoy or bother; to bedevil.To grill with cayenne pepper; to season highly in cooking, as with pepper.To finely grind cooked ham or other meat with spices and condiments.To prepare a sidedish of shelled halved boiled eggs to whose extracted yokes are added condiments and spices, which mixture then is placed into the halved whites to be served.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A creature of hell.(the devil or the Devil) The chief devil; Satan.The bad part of the conscience; the opposite to the angel.A wicked or naughty person, or one who harbors reckless, spirited energy, especially in a mischievous way; usually said of a young child.A thing that is awkward or difficult to understand or do.Hell.A person, especially a man; used to express a particular opinion of him, usually in the phrases poor devil and lucky devil.A dust devil.An evil or erroneous entity.barren, unproductive and unused, as in .

Example sentence: Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.

We hope you now know whether to use Chafe or Devil in your sentence.

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