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Another word for affliction

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affliction

n.

suffering, pain, distress, trouble, misfortune, tribulation, trial, hardship, adversity, misery, wretchedness, calamity, catastrophe, disaster, ailment, infirmity, sickness, disease, disorder, grief, woe, sorrow, care, unhappiness, heartache, cross, cross to bear, ordeal, torment, scourge, plight, difficulty, burden, curse, bane, visitation, tsoris*; see also difficulty 1, 2, pain 1, 2.

affliction implies pain, suffering, or distress imposed by illness, loss, misfortune, etc.; trial suggests suffering that tries one's endurance, but in a weaker sense refers to annoyance that tries one's patience; tribulation connotes severe affliction continuing over a long and trying period; misfortune is applied to a circumstance or event involving adverse fortune or to the suffering or distress occasioned by it

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Another word for affliction

noun

A state of physical or mental suffering:
agony, anguish, distress, hurt, misery, pain, torment, torture, woe, wound, wretchedness. See happy
The condition of being sick:
disorder, illness, indisposition, infirmity, sickness. See health
Something hard to bear physically or emotionally:
burden¹, cross, trial, tribulation. See heavy, over
A cause of suffering or harm:
bane, curse, evil, ill, plague, scourge, woe. See help

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She must face her affliction and clean up the house or she will lose her daughters.
This deadly affliction can remain undetected for months, until infected animals are subject to a number of uncomfortable and potentially fatal conditions.
Is it possible that many of the chupacabra pictures are merely of a coyote with some type of mange or other skin affliction?
The Horse Boy: A Father's Quest to Heal His Son by Rupert Isaacson: The Horse Boy is an inspirational story about how parents came to see his son's autism as an adventure rather than an affliction.
The lady confessed her werewolf affliction and was summarily executed.This tale is told with some variations on Hell Horror, along with many other legends of shape-shifting creatures.

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