My motto is: Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
Source: tatoeba (1521892)
Afflict
//əˈflɪkt//
Synonyms for "afflict" (190 found)
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Closest matches (38)
Strong matches (57)
Related words (95)
hexhospitalizehurtimpairincapacitateindisposeinfectinflameinflictinflict paininjureinundateinvalidirkirritatejinxkill by incheslaceratelay upload with care
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6 entriesRelated terms
2 entriesderived
5 entriesmanner of
3 entriesrelated to
5 entriesTranslations
35 translations across 17 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- измъчвам verb (to cause pain to)
- причинявам болка verb (to cause pain to)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 使痛苦 verb (to cause pain to)
Czech
3 entries- postihnout verb (to cause pain to)
- postihovat verb (to cause pain to)
- trápit verb (to cause pain to)
Dutch
4 entries- bedroeven verb (to cause pain to)
- kwellen verb (to cause pain to)
- teisteren verb (to cause pain to)
- treffen verb (to cause pain to)
Esperanto
3 entries- aflikti verb (to cause pain to)
- malĝojigi verb (to cause pain to)
- ĉagreni verb (to cause pain to)
Finnish
2 entries- koetella verb (to cause pain to)
- vaivata verb (to cause pain to)
German
1 entries- bekümmern verb (to cause pain to)
Hebrew
3 entries- אמלל verb (to cause pain to)
- הכאיב verb (to cause pain to)
- ייסר verb (to cause pain to)
Ido
1 entries- afliktar verb (to cause pain to)
Italian
1 entries- affliggere verb (to cause pain to)
Latin
1 entries- afflīgō verb (to cause pain to)
Māori
3 entries- makimaki verb (to cause pain to)
- ngau verb (to cause pain to)
- whakawhiu verb (to cause pain to)
Persian
3 entries- آزردن verb (to cause pain to)
- دامنگیر کردن verb (to cause pain to)
- دچار کردن verb (to cause pain to)
Portuguese
1 entries- afligir verb (to cause pain to)
Russian
2 entries- мучать verb (to cause pain to)
- причиня́ть боль verb (to cause pain to)
Spanish
2 entries- acorar verb (to cause pain to)
- afligir verb (to cause pain to)
Ukrainian
2 entries- дошкуляти verb (to cause pain to)
- причиняти verb (to cause pain to)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
Let us not attribute to malice and cruelty what may be referred to less criminal motives. Do we not often afflict others undesignedly, and, from mere carelessness, neglect to relieve distress?
Source: tatoeba (5743832)
If thou afflict my daughters, and if thou bring in other wives over them: none is witness of our speech but God, who is present and beholdeth.
Source: tatoeba (7829584)
And it was said unto him: Know thou beforehand that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land not their own, and they shall bring them under bondage, and afflict them four hundred years.
Source: tatoeba (7848851)
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