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Afflict 1100 Words You Need Week 8 Day 2

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Afflict 1100 Words You Need

Afflict 1100 Words You Need

/əˈflɪkt/ (verb)

If a problem or illness afflicts a person or thing, they suffer from it, cause distress, trouble, bother, affect, worry, upset, irritate, vex, distress, make someone suffer from something:

It is an illness which afflicts women more than men.

a country afflicted by civil war

adj: afflictive

adv: afflictively

noun: afflicter

French: affliger

Farsi: آزردن، پریشان کردن


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