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noun

affliction, infliction, torture, ill-treatment, maltreatment, torment, killing, murder, massacre, banishment, expulsion, exile, imprisonment, mistreatment, annoyance, teasing, galling, provoking, pestering; see also abuse 3, oppression 1, torture.

Antonyms help*, succor, stimulation.

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