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Synonyms for afflict:


verb cause or become hurt

annoy
beset
bother
burden
oppress
plague
rack
torment
torture
wound
agonize
crucify
distress
grieve
harass
harrow
harry
irk
lacerate
martyr
pain
pester
press
smite
strike
trouble
try
vex
worry

Examples of uses:

I will accept in resignation the pain that human evil may afflict upon me.
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Mr Brady, it's the duty of a newspaper to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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To my mind, war is the greatest folly that can afflict mankind.
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Corpus name: OpenSubtitles2018. License: not specified. References: http://opus.nlpl.eu/OpenSubtitles2018.php, http://stp.lingfil.uu.se/~joerg/paper/opensubs2016.pdf
Yet, methinks, the manner of your death should much afflict you.
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Corpus name: OpenSubtitles2018. License: not specified. References: http://opus.nlpl.eu/OpenSubtitles2018.php, http://stp.lingfil.uu.se/~joerg/paper/opensubs2016.pdf
The data we gather from you may help us cure physical and psychological disorders that afflict millions.
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Corpus name: OpenSubtitles2018. License: not specified. References: http://opus.nlpl.eu/OpenSubtitles2018.php, http://stp.lingfil.uu.se/~joerg/paper/opensubs2016.pdf
Comforting the afflicted and afflict the comfortable
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Its rulers shall afflict them pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them. They shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth.
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Corpus name: OpenSubtitles2018. License: not specified. References: http://opus.nlpl.eu/OpenSubtitles2018.php, http://stp.lingfil.uu.se/~joerg/paper/opensubs2016.pdf
This is the very ecstasy of love, whose violent property fordoes itself and leads the will to desperate undertakings as oft as any passion under heaven that does afflict our natures.
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Corpus name: OpenSubtitles2018. License: not specified. References: http://opus.nlpl.eu/OpenSubtitles2018.php, http://stp.lingfil.uu.se/~joerg/paper/opensubs2016.pdf
I offer you in turn my health and my life and I humbly accept all obstacles and calamities all diseases and pain that may afflict a man.
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Corpus name: OpenSubtitles2018. License: not specified. References: http://opus.nlpl.eu/OpenSubtitles2018.php, http://stp.lingfil.uu.se/~joerg/paper/opensubs2016.pdf
I don't want to afflict traumas to myself or to others.
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Corpus name: OpenSubtitles2018. License: not specified. References: http://opus.nlpl.eu/OpenSubtitles2018.php, http://stp.lingfil.uu.se/~joerg/paper/opensubs2016.pdf

Antonyms for afflict:

aid