Words and phrases that have a meaning related to afflict: (145 results)
Often used in the same context:
plagues, suffer, bedevil, pervade, besets, infects, befall, affects, predominate, infest, vex, inflicts, blights, predispose, permeate, exacerbate, debilitating, worsen, succumb, ravage, persist, aggravates, lurk, inhabit, wreak, cause, festers, occur, cure, beleaguer, sicken, outnumber, engulf, perplex, preys, spastic colon, tapeworm infection, confronting, linger, crippling, consigns, ameliorate, exasperate, preoccupy, transfix, endure, wracked, distresses, maims, psychotic depression, palliated, torments, beclouded, misremember, spawns, exist, recurs, fixate, haunt, dooms, dwells, fascinate, outgrow, contributes, devastates, ensnare, confound, rheumatic disease, wracks, abound, mystify, burgeon, gripped, metastasizes, arise, forebodes, dogging, underlie, creep, rankle, anthropomorphise, comprise, despise, typify, disfigures, suppurating, misconceive, degenerate, threaten, irritate, ostracizes, paralyze, subjugates, flaccid paralysis, relegates, bewilder, dominate, paraskavedekatriaphobia, erupt, overwhelm, ebola hemorrhagic fever, essential tremor, accumulating, administering, albert, armament, ascendant, aspiring, assemble, bailiff, bailiffs, bailiwick, bane, bien, boulevards, cardinal, caroline, chagrin, cham, chamberlain, chancellor, charles
Appears in the definition of:
hit, pandora's box, strike, vex, worry
More general:
Also try:damage, discomfit, discompose, disconcert, hurt, untune, upset
— Adjectives for afflict: french, hourly, present, more, grand
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