When Someone Is Chafed?

Chafing is a common skin problem caused by any combination of friction, moisture, and irritating fabric. Prolonged rubbing on the skin makes your skin sting or burn, and you develop a mild, red rash. In severe cases, chafing will include swelling, bleeding, or crusting.

Is it chaffed or chafed?

verb (used with object), chafed, chaf·ing. to wear or abrade by rubbing: He chafed his shoes on the rocks. to make sore by rubbing: Her collar chafed her neck.

What does chafing mean?

1 : irritate, vex The noise of the children playing chafed her. 2 : to warm by rubbing especially with the hands. 3a : to rub so as to wear away : abrade the strap chafed his skin The boat chafed its sides against the dock. b : to make sore by or as if by rubbing The tight collar chafed his neck.