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af·flic·tion
 affliction
- pronunciation:
flIk
shn
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noun |
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a condition of pain or suffering, or the cause of such a state.
Her arthritis had become a painful affliction that limited her activity.His considered his shyness as an affliction.- synonyms:
- distress, misery, suffering
- antonyms:
- blessing, comfort, solace
- similar words:
- adversity, blow, burden, complaint, cross, discomfort, evil, grief, hardship, harm, hurt, ill, pain, plague, scourge, sore, sorrow, torment, trial, tribulation, trouble, woe
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ache, ailment, blight, calamity, care, curse, despair, disability, disaster, disease, disorder, fire, gall, horror, ill, illness, malady, misery, ordeal, plague, thorn, tragedy, weight, yoke |
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