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Definition of chafing : 1. of Chafe
2. The act of rubbing, or wearing by friction; making by rubbing.

Synonyms:

carking, plaguey, nettlesome, rebarbative, vexatious, abrasive, frustrating, pestilent, pesty, riling, pestiferous, nettling, pestilential, galling, maddening, pesky

rasping, resisting, abrading, disturbing, harassing, aggravating, irritating, grinding, fretting, scraping, grating, scrubbing, wearing, rubbing

friction, abrasion, resistance

envenoming, nagging, teasing, perturbing, upsetting, enraging, bedeviling, infuriating, rankling, antagonizing, troubling, exasperating, irking, exacerbating, badgering, needling, bothering, pestering, hassling, discomposing, harrying, vexing, baiting, arousing, peeving

gripe, spasm, hurt, burn, inflammation, stitch, painfulness, suffering, wound, stab, malaise, grief, smarting, crick, bite, discomfort, sting, migraine, pain, pang, rack, torment, back-ache, injury, headache, earache, sore, agony, ache, affliction, irritation, anguish, wrench, throe, torture, misery, distress, infliction, bruise, throb, cramp

distressing, hurting, discomforting, afflicting, paining, stitching, racking

distressful, throbbing, biting, gnawing, uncomfortable, annoying, wrenching, burdensome, harrowing, horrendous, unbearable, excruciating, aching, troublesome, odious, cramping, painful, besetting, arduous, inflaming, bothersome, severe, anguishing, offensive, tormenting, miserable, disagreeable, trying, bitter, oppressive, stinging, grueling, agonizing, grievous, insufferable, torturing, cruel, irksome, piercing, woeful, crushing, withering, cutting, acute, stabbing, hurtful, unpleasant

Usage examples:

• One of the young pigeons was found nearly dead this morning; but Yuranigh, by chafing and warming it by the fire, soon recovered it. - "Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia In Search of a Route from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria (1848) by Lt. Col. Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell Kt. D.C.L. (1792-1855) Surveyor-General of New South Wales", Thomas Mitchell.
• Miller was chafing inwardly and running over in his mind what was to be done; and nobody else seemed quite to know what ought to happen next, when the door opened and Jervis came in. - "Tom Brown at Oxford", Thomas Hughes.
• Nora was upon her knees beside the sick girl, sobbing and chafing her pale hands; the investigator was at a telephone summoning the police. - "Ashton-Kirk, Criminologist", John T. McIntyre.