affliction
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /əˈflɪkʃən/
affliction
- A state of pain, suffering, distress or agony.
- Something which causes pain, suffering, distress or agony.
- 1913, Willa Cather, O Pioneers!:
- She wore a man's long ulster (not as if it were an affliction, but as if it were very comfortable and belonged to her; carried it like a young soldier) [...]
- 1913, Willa Cather, O Pioneers!:
- French: affliction, détresse
- Italian: afflizione
- Portuguese: aflição
- Russian: страда́ние
- Spanish: aflicción, tribulación, quebranto
- French: affliction
- Italian: afflizione
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