Affliction

Noun

 * 1) a state of pain, suffering, distress or agony
 * 2) the cause of such a state

Adjectives for Affliction
respiratory; corporal;  irremediable; desperate; bitter; poignant; mute; sharp; undeserved; recurring; rending; harsh; fatal; brutal; palsied; temporary.

Verb for Affliction
ameliorate -; amend -; bear -; bind in -; break with -; carry -; comfort -; conceal -; deliver -; diagnose -; endure -; grant refuge from -; purify by -; shake off -; visit in -; - bites; - follows; - grows; - persists; - prevents; - refines; - softens; - threatens.

Synonyms for Affliction
misfortune, tribulation, distress, trouble, sorrow, suffering, adversity, injury, woe, misery, disaster, anguish, wretchedness.

Antonyms for Affliction
relief, comfort.

Thesaurus
abnormality; acute disease; adverse circumstances; adversity; affection; aggravation; ailment; allergic disease; allergy; anguish; annoyance; atrophy; bacterial disease; bane; birth defect; bitter cup; bitter draft; bitter draught; bitter pill; blight; bugbear; bummer; burden; burden of care; calamity; calvary; cankerworm of care; cardiovascular disease; care; catastrophe; chronic disease; circulatory disease; complaint; complication; condition; congenital defect; cross; crown of thorns; crucible; crushing burden; curse; death; defect; deficiency disease; deformity; degenerative disease; destruction; difficulties; difficulty; disability; disaster; disease; disorder; distemper; distress; dole; downer; encumbrance; endemic; endemic disease; endocrine disease; epidemic disease; evil; functional disease; fungus disease; gall; gall and wormwood; gastrointestinal disease; genetic disease; grief; grievance; handicap; hard knocks; hard life; hard lot; hardcase; hardship; harm; heartache; heartbreak; hereditary disease; iatrogenic disease; illness; indisposition; infectious disease; infirmity; infliction; irritation; load; malady; malaise; mischance; misery; misfortune; mishap; morbidity; morbus; muscular disease; nemesis; neurological disease; nutritional disease; occupational disease; open wound; oppression; ordeal; organic disease; pack of troubles; pain; pandemic disease; pathological condition; pathology; peck of troubles; pest; pestilence; plague; plant disease; plight; predicament; pressure; protozoan disease; psychosomatic disease; regret; respiratory disease; rigor; rockiness; rue; running sore; scourge; sea of troubles; secondary disease; seediness; sickishness; sickness; signs; sorrow; stress; stress of life; suffering; symptomatology; symptomology; symptoms; syndrome; the pip; thorn; torment; trial; tribulation; trouble; troubles; urogenital disease; vale of tears; vexation; vicissitude; virus disease; visitation; wasting disease; waters of bitterness; weight; woe; worm disease; wretchedness

Translations

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 * Bulgarian: болка, измъчване,  огорчение
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 * Spanish:, tribulación


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