Definition of affliction in English:

affliction

noun əˈflɪkʃ(ə)nəˈflɪkʃ(ə)n

1A cause of pain or harm.
a crippling affliction of the nervous system
由神经系统造成严重伤害的痛源。
Example sentencesExamples
- I know that, in 10 years, cancer will be an affliction, but not one that sends fear in all of us.
- His grandmother had the same affliction that his mother was cursed with.
- In the 1970s, when discoveries were made regarding its beneficial role in preventing heart attacks, strokes and other afflictions, other analgesics, such as ibuprofen and paracetamol, were entering the market.
- Our clumsy attempts at diagnosis are harmful to the people concerned, damaging to organisational productivity and insensitive to those who really do live with afflictions like Asperger's Syndrome.
- In fact, he probably went into psychology in order to evade his own problems by concentrating on the mental afflictions of others.
- Individuals suffering from this affliction consistently fall asleep in the early evening and wake in the early hours of the morning regardless of their work schedule and life's infringements.
- A new report warns that a group of tropical sea snails, famous for yielding new wonder drugs to treat chronic pain, cancer, and many other afflictions, could rapidly become extinct if measures are not taken to protect them.
- Such matters include, for example, marital difficulties, anorexia, post-natal depression, physical and sexual abuse and other injuries, afflictions and misfortunes of an intimate and private nature.
- As the acute, communicable diseases were defeated, attention shifted to the chronic and degenerative afflictions, especially cancer, diabetes, stroke, and heart disease.
- Heartburn sounds such an innocuous affliction until you actually experience it but stabbing sharp pains in your chest when ever you bend down or lie down is not very fun.
- Their afflictions were of long standing, and they felt them to be irremediable.
- The afflictions of a person suffering from terminal cancer were poignantly portrayed in the film, which also dwelt on the strengths of holistic medicine.
- It will also cover a number of other afflictions, besides gynaecological problems.
- ‘Without it, children become easy prey for a host of life-threatening afflictions that carry in dirty water and on unwashed fingers,’ she said.
- All three have tried assorted medication and even thought about brain surgery to rid themselves of their afflictions, so this is a desperate last attempt to find a cure and give them back their lives.
- The patriarchal medicine of the 19th century believed that femaleness in itself was a disease, and puberty, pregnancy and menopause were considered horrible afflictions that prevented women from being educated or working.
- Swimming with dolphins has had an amazing effect on many people, helping them overcome a variety of afflictions.
- The commandments that they propagate to prevent cancer highlight the importance of diet in warding off the affliction.
- He listens to everyone and removes the pains and afflictions of all.
- If you have a minor affliction, chances are that there probably won't be any pain, both during and after treatment.
Synonyms
disorder, disease, malady, complaint, ailment, illness, indisposition, scourge, plague, trouble, menace, evil, visitation
1. 1.1mass noun The state of being in pain.
  poor people in great affliction
  忍受巨大痛苦的穷人。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Bemusement, uncertainty, insecurity, affliction are all tokens of an unremitting struggle; however stylish, the words are always about something, they are never in vacuo or for display.
  What roles does affliction, the suffering constrained by the sense of God's palpable absence, play in divine providence, according to Herbert's poetry?
  The Standard joins the many friends of the bereaved children in extending consolation and sympathy in their great affliction.
  He could understand the sad plight of fellow countrymen, their exploitation, poverty, suffering and affliction under the mercy of foreign rule and darkness of ignorance.
  This is the way mankind will end up, imagines Margaret Atwood: with huge affliction and dismay.
  Many of our sisters and brothers around the world live in sorrow and affliction: in the pain of hunger or the grip of disease, in fear of political reprisals, in poverty so pervasive it saps the spirit.
  He also wants to make a point about human suffering and affliction, which he does by bringing out the allegorical significance of the story.
  Some have complained bitterly of the failure of municipal authorities to provide adequate water for bathing in this bitter season of heat and affliction.
  He has written close to a dozen books set among the working class in this region, all of them stark portrayals of affliction, yet his writing is always redemptive and uplifting.
  A scream of pure affliction passed across her lips and infinite pain seemed to hit her, bruising her heart.
  I returned to the essay, which describes affliction as a condition deeper and more painful than suffering.
  The effects of man's exposition to these laws may vary between pleasure and pain, comfort and affliction, happiness and misery.
  Anger, it should be noted, has etymological roots both in trouble, grief and affliction.
  We deeply sympathize with the personal friends and relatives of the deceased in their great affliction, and hope that in their grief they may find consolation in the religion professed and lived by the Senator.
  I never saw such a picture of forlorn affliction and distress of mind.
  Synonyms
  suffering, distress, pain, trouble, misery, wretchedness, hardship, misfortune, adversity, sorrow, torment, tribulation, woe, cross to bear, thorn in one's flesh/side
  bane, trial, calamity, ordeal
  (afflictions), ills
2. 1.2Astrology An instance of one celestial body afflicting another.
  〔占星〕（天体的）相互处于应力星位
  Example sentencesExamples
  The Sun ruling the 2nd is not such an affliction.
  Usually Saturn with Oculus Taurii produces great afflictions, and shows a strange mind.
  Also Jupiter has just separated by two minutes from a square of the Sun, which is an affliction.
  If the horary concerns a 7th house matter, however, the affliction may be describing the situation under consideration, in which case the warning is to proceed with diligence.
  Sexual ‘abnormalities’ - including promiscuity - are associated in general with afflictions between Venus, Mars and Saturn.

Origin

Middle English (originally in the sense 'infliction of pain or humiliation', specifically 'religious self-mortification'): via Old French from Latin afflictio(n-), from the verb affligere (see afflict).

Rhymes

addiction, benediction, constriction, conviction, crucifixion, depiction, dereliction, diction, eviction, fiction, friction, infliction, interdiction, jurisdiction, malediction, restriction, transfixion, valediction

Definition of affliction in US English:

affliction

nounəˈflikSH(ə)nəˈflɪkʃ(ə)n

1Something that causes pain or suffering.
痛源，苦事
a crippling affliction of the nervous system
由神经系统造成严重伤害的痛源。
Example sentencesExamples
- All three have tried assorted medication and even thought about brain surgery to rid themselves of their afflictions, so this is a desperate last attempt to find a cure and give them back their lives.
- Our clumsy attempts at diagnosis are harmful to the people concerned, damaging to organisational productivity and insensitive to those who really do live with afflictions like Asperger's Syndrome.
- If you have a minor affliction, chances are that there probably won't be any pain, both during and after treatment.
- Heartburn sounds such an innocuous affliction until you actually experience it but stabbing sharp pains in your chest when ever you bend down or lie down is not very fun.
- The afflictions of a person suffering from terminal cancer were poignantly portrayed in the film, which also dwelt on the strengths of holistic medicine.
- The patriarchal medicine of the 19th century believed that femaleness in itself was a disease, and puberty, pregnancy and menopause were considered horrible afflictions that prevented women from being educated or working.
- Such matters include, for example, marital difficulties, anorexia, post-natal depression, physical and sexual abuse and other injuries, afflictions and misfortunes of an intimate and private nature.
- ‘Without it, children become easy prey for a host of life-threatening afflictions that carry in dirty water and on unwashed fingers,’ she said.
- As the acute, communicable diseases were defeated, attention shifted to the chronic and degenerative afflictions, especially cancer, diabetes, stroke, and heart disease.
- It will also cover a number of other afflictions, besides gynaecological problems.
- He listens to everyone and removes the pains and afflictions of all.
- Swimming with dolphins has had an amazing effect on many people, helping them overcome a variety of afflictions.
- The commandments that they propagate to prevent cancer highlight the importance of diet in warding off the affliction.
- I know that, in 10 years, cancer will be an affliction, but not one that sends fear in all of us.
- A new report warns that a group of tropical sea snails, famous for yielding new wonder drugs to treat chronic pain, cancer, and many other afflictions, could rapidly become extinct if measures are not taken to protect them.
- In the 1970s, when discoveries were made regarding its beneficial role in preventing heart attacks, strokes and other afflictions, other analgesics, such as ibuprofen and paracetamol, were entering the market.
- Their afflictions were of long standing, and they felt them to be irremediable.
- In fact, he probably went into psychology in order to evade his own problems by concentrating on the mental afflictions of others.
- His grandmother had the same affliction that his mother was cursed with.
- Individuals suffering from this affliction consistently fall asleep in the early evening and wake in the early hours of the morning regardless of their work schedule and life's infringements.
Synonyms
disorder, disease, malady, complaint, ailment, illness, indisposition, scourge, plague, trouble, menace, evil, visitation
1. 1.1 Pain or suffering.
  痛苦；苦楚
  poor people in great affliction
  忍受巨大痛苦的穷人。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The effects of man's exposition to these laws may vary between pleasure and pain, comfort and affliction, happiness and misery.
  Anger, it should be noted, has etymological roots both in trouble, grief and affliction.
  I never saw such a picture of forlorn affliction and distress of mind.
  I returned to the essay, which describes affliction as a condition deeper and more painful than suffering.
  The Standard joins the many friends of the bereaved children in extending consolation and sympathy in their great affliction.
  A scream of pure affliction passed across her lips and infinite pain seemed to hit her, bruising her heart.
  What roles does affliction, the suffering constrained by the sense of God's palpable absence, play in divine providence, according to Herbert's poetry?
  Some have complained bitterly of the failure of municipal authorities to provide adequate water for bathing in this bitter season of heat and affliction.
  He also wants to make a point about human suffering and affliction, which he does by bringing out the allegorical significance of the story.
  He has written close to a dozen books set among the working class in this region, all of them stark portrayals of affliction, yet his writing is always redemptive and uplifting.
  We deeply sympathize with the personal friends and relatives of the deceased in their great affliction, and hope that in their grief they may find consolation in the religion professed and lived by the Senator.
  He could understand the sad plight of fellow countrymen, their exploitation, poverty, suffering and affliction under the mercy of foreign rule and darkness of ignorance.
  Many of our sisters and brothers around the world live in sorrow and affliction: in the pain of hunger or the grip of disease, in fear of political reprisals, in poverty so pervasive it saps the spirit.
  Bemusement, uncertainty, insecurity, affliction are all tokens of an unremitting struggle; however stylish, the words are always about something, they are never in vacuo or for display.
  This is the way mankind will end up, imagines Margaret Atwood: with huge affliction and dismay.
  Synonyms
  suffering, distress, pain, trouble, misery, wretchedness, hardship, misfortune, adversity, sorrow, torment, tribulation, woe, cross to bear, thorn in one's flesh, thorn in one's side
2. 1.2Astrology An instance of one celestial body afflicting another.
  〔占星〕（天体的）相互处于应力星位
  Example sentencesExamples
  Also Jupiter has just separated by two minutes from a square of the Sun, which is an affliction.
  The Sun ruling the 2nd is not such an affliction.
  Usually Saturn with Oculus Taurii produces great afflictions, and shows a strange mind.
  If the horary concerns a 7th house matter, however, the affliction may be describing the situation under consideration, in which case the warning is to proceed with diligence.
  Sexual ‘abnormalities’ - including promiscuity - are associated in general with afflictions between Venus, Mars and Saturn.

Origin

Middle English (originally in the sense ‘infliction of pain or humiliation’, specifically ‘religious self-mortification’): via Old French from Latin afflictio(n-), from the verb affligere (see afflict).

词汇	affliction
释义	Definition of affliction in English: affliction noun əˈflɪkʃ(ə)nəˈflɪkʃ(ə)n 1A cause of pain or harm. a crippling affliction of the nervous system 由神经系统造成严重伤害的痛源。 Example sentencesExamples I know that, in 10 years, cancer will be an affliction, but not one that sends fear in all of us. His grandmother had the same affliction that his mother was cursed with. In the 1970s, when discoveries were made regarding its beneficial role in preventing heart attacks, strokes and other afflictions, other analgesics, such as ibuprofen and paracetamol, were entering the market. Our clumsy attempts at diagnosis are harmful to the people concerned, damaging to organisational productivity and insensitive to those who really do live with afflictions like Asperger's Syndrome. In fact, he probably went into psychology in order to evade his own problems by concentrating on the mental afflictions of others. Individuals suffering from this affliction consistently fall asleep in the early evening and wake in the early hours of the morning regardless of their work schedule and life's infringements. A new report warns that a group of tropical sea snails, famous for yielding new wonder drugs to treat chronic pain, cancer, and many other afflictions, could rapidly become extinct if measures are not taken to protect them. Such matters include, for example, marital difficulties, anorexia, post-natal depression, physical and sexual abuse and other injuries, afflictions and misfortunes of an intimate and private nature. As the acute, communicable diseases were defeated, attention shifted to the chronic and degenerative afflictions, especially cancer, diabetes, stroke, and heart disease. Heartburn sounds such an innocuous affliction until you actually experience it but stabbing sharp pains in your chest when ever you bend down or lie down is not very fun. Their afflictions were of long standing, and they felt them to be irremediable. The afflictions of a person suffering from terminal cancer were poignantly portrayed in the film, which also dwelt on the strengths of holistic medicine. It will also cover a number of other afflictions, besides gynaecological problems. ‘Without it, children become easy prey for a host of life-threatening afflictions that carry in dirty water and on unwashed fingers,’ she said. All three have tried assorted medication and even thought about brain surgery to rid themselves of their afflictions, so this is a desperate last attempt to find a cure and give them back their lives. The patriarchal medicine of the 19th century believed that femaleness in itself was a disease, and puberty, pregnancy and menopause were considered horrible afflictions that prevented women from being educated or working. Swimming with dolphins has had an amazing effect on many people, helping them overcome a variety of afflictions. The commandments that they propagate to prevent cancer highlight the importance of diet in warding off the affliction. He listens to everyone and removes the pains and afflictions of all. If you have a minor affliction, chances are that there probably won't be any pain, both during and after treatment. Synonyms disorder, disease, malady, complaint, ailment, illness, indisposition, scourge, plague, trouble, menace, evil, visitation 1.1mass noun The state of being in pain. poor people in great affliction 忍受巨大痛苦的穷人。 Example sentencesExamples Bemusement, uncertainty, insecurity, affliction are all tokens of an unremitting struggle; however stylish, the words are always about something, they are never in vacuo or for display. What roles does affliction, the suffering constrained by the sense of God's palpable absence, play in divine providence, according to Herbert's poetry? The Standard joins the many friends of the bereaved children in extending consolation and sympathy in their great affliction. He could understand the sad plight of fellow countrymen, their exploitation, poverty, suffering and affliction under the mercy of foreign rule and darkness of ignorance. This is the way mankind will end up, imagines Margaret Atwood: with huge affliction and dismay. Many of our sisters and brothers around the world live in sorrow and affliction: in the pain of hunger or the grip of disease, in fear of political reprisals, in poverty so pervasive it saps the spirit. He also wants to make a point about human suffering and affliction, which he does by bringing out the allegorical significance of the story. Some have complained bitterly of the failure of municipal authorities to provide adequate water for bathing in this bitter season of heat and affliction. He has written close to a dozen books set among the working class in this region, all of them stark portrayals of affliction, yet his writing is always redemptive and uplifting. A scream of pure affliction passed across her lips and infinite pain seemed to hit her, bruising her heart. I returned to the essay, which describes affliction as a condition deeper and more painful than suffering. The effects of man's exposition to these laws may vary between pleasure and pain, comfort and affliction, happiness and misery. Anger, it should be noted, has etymological roots both in trouble, grief and affliction. We deeply sympathize with the personal friends and relatives of the deceased in their great affliction, and hope that in their grief they may find consolation in the religion professed and lived by the Senator. I never saw such a picture of forlorn affliction and distress of mind. Synonyms suffering, distress, pain, trouble, misery, wretchedness, hardship, misfortune, adversity, sorrow, torment, tribulation, woe, cross to bear, thorn in one's flesh/side bane, trial, calamity, ordeal (afflictions), ills 1.2Astrology An instance of one celestial body afflicting another. 〔占星〕（天体的）相互处于应力星位 Example sentencesExamples The Sun ruling the 2nd is not such an affliction. Usually Saturn with Oculus Taurii produces great afflictions, and shows a strange mind. Also Jupiter has just separated by two minutes from a square of the Sun, which is an affliction. If the horary concerns a 7th house matter, however, the affliction may be describing the situation under consideration, in which case the warning is to proceed with diligence. Sexual ‘abnormalities’ - including promiscuity - are associated in general with afflictions between Venus, Mars and Saturn. Origin Middle English (originally in the sense 'infliction of pain or humiliation', specifically 'religious self-mortification'): via Old French from Latin afflictio(n-), from the verb affligere (see afflict). Rhymes addiction, benediction, constriction, conviction, crucifixion, depiction, dereliction, diction, eviction, fiction, friction, infliction, interdiction, jurisdiction, malediction, restriction, transfixion, valediction Definition of affliction in US English: affliction nounəˈflikSH(ə)nəˈflɪkʃ(ə)n 1Something that causes pain or suffering. 痛源，苦事 a crippling affliction of the nervous system 由神经系统造成严重伤害的痛源。 Example sentencesExamples All three have tried assorted medication and even thought about brain surgery to rid themselves of their afflictions, so this is a desperate last attempt to find a cure and give them back their lives. Our clumsy attempts at diagnosis are harmful to the people concerned, damaging to organisational productivity and insensitive to those who really do live with afflictions like Asperger's Syndrome. If you have a minor affliction, chances are that there probably won't be any pain, both during and after treatment. Heartburn sounds such an innocuous affliction until you actually experience it but stabbing sharp pains in your chest when ever you bend down or lie down is not very fun. The afflictions of a person suffering from terminal cancer were poignantly portrayed in the film, which also dwelt on the strengths of holistic medicine. The patriarchal medicine of the 19th century believed that femaleness in itself was a disease, and puberty, pregnancy and menopause were considered horrible afflictions that prevented women from being educated or working. Such matters include, for example, marital difficulties, anorexia, post-natal depression, physical and sexual abuse and other injuries, afflictions and misfortunes of an intimate and private nature. ‘Without it, children become easy prey for a host of life-threatening afflictions that carry in dirty water and on unwashed fingers,’ she said. As the acute, communicable diseases were defeated, attention shifted to the chronic and degenerative afflictions, especially cancer, diabetes, stroke, and heart disease. It will also cover a number of other afflictions, besides gynaecological problems. He listens to everyone and removes the pains and afflictions of all. Swimming with dolphins has had an amazing effect on many people, helping them overcome a variety of afflictions. The commandments that they propagate to prevent cancer highlight the importance of diet in warding off the affliction. I know that, in 10 years, cancer will be an affliction, but not one that sends fear in all of us. A new report warns that a group of tropical sea snails, famous for yielding new wonder drugs to treat chronic pain, cancer, and many other afflictions, could rapidly become extinct if measures are not taken to protect them. In the 1970s, when discoveries were made regarding its beneficial role in preventing heart attacks, strokes and other afflictions, other analgesics, such as ibuprofen and paracetamol, were entering the market. Their afflictions were of long standing, and they felt them to be irremediable. In fact, he probably went into psychology in order to evade his own problems by concentrating on the mental afflictions of others. His grandmother had the same affliction that his mother was cursed with. Individuals suffering from this affliction consistently fall asleep in the early evening and wake in the early hours of the morning regardless of their work schedule and life's infringements. Synonyms disorder, disease, malady, complaint, ailment, illness, indisposition, scourge, plague, trouble, menace, evil, visitation 1.1 Pain or suffering. 痛苦；苦楚 poor people in great affliction 忍受巨大痛苦的穷人。 Example sentencesExamples The effects of man's exposition to these laws may vary between pleasure and pain, comfort and affliction, happiness and misery. Anger, it should be noted, has etymological roots both in trouble, grief and affliction. I never saw such a picture of forlorn affliction and distress of mind. I returned to the essay, which describes affliction as a condition deeper and more painful than suffering. The Standard joins the many friends of the bereaved children in extending consolation and sympathy in their great affliction. A scream of pure affliction passed across her lips and infinite pain seemed to hit her, bruising her heart. What roles does affliction, the suffering constrained by the sense of God's palpable absence, play in divine providence, according to Herbert's poetry? Some have complained bitterly of the failure of municipal authorities to provide adequate water for bathing in this bitter season of heat and affliction. He also wants to make a point about human suffering and affliction, which he does by bringing out the allegorical significance of the story. He has written close to a dozen books set among the working class in this region, all of them stark portrayals of affliction, yet his writing is always redemptive and uplifting. We deeply sympathize with the personal friends and relatives of the deceased in their great affliction, and hope that in their grief they may find consolation in the religion professed and lived by the Senator. He could understand the sad plight of fellow countrymen, their exploitation, poverty, suffering and affliction under the mercy of foreign rule and darkness of ignorance. Many of our sisters and brothers around the world live in sorrow and affliction: in the pain of hunger or the grip of disease, in fear of political reprisals, in poverty so pervasive it saps the spirit. Bemusement, uncertainty, insecurity, affliction are all tokens of an unremitting struggle; however stylish, the words are always about something, they are never in vacuo or for display. This is the way mankind will end up, imagines Margaret Atwood: with huge affliction and dismay. Synonyms suffering, distress, pain, trouble, misery, wretchedness, hardship, misfortune, adversity, sorrow, torment, tribulation, woe, cross to bear, thorn in one's flesh, thorn in one's side 1.2Astrology An instance of one celestial body afflicting another. 〔占星〕（天体的）相互处于应力星位 Example sentencesExamples Also Jupiter has just separated by two minutes from a square of the Sun, which is an affliction. The Sun ruling the 2nd is not such an affliction. Usually Saturn with Oculus Taurii produces great afflictions, and shows a strange mind. If the horary concerns a 7th house matter, however, the affliction may be describing the situation under consideration, in which case the warning is to proceed with diligence. Sexual ‘abnormalities’ - including promiscuity - are associated in general with afflictions between Venus, Mars and Saturn. Origin Middle English (originally in the sense ‘infliction of pain or humiliation’, specifically ‘religious self-mortification’): via Old French from Latin afflictio(n-), from the verb affligere (see afflict).
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