Thesaurus of afflict
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The following statistics are based on the British National Corpus, so they are representative for the British English.
Distribution of usage frequency for the most common synonyms of the verb afflict:
Synonyms of the verb afflict
Equivalent words for the verb afflict:
- smite (5 letter word for afflict)
- inflections: smote, smitten, smiting, smites
- related terms: oversmite, upsmite, smiter
Hypernyms of the verb afflict
More generic words for the verb afflict, that have fewer characters:
- abash (5 letter word)
- inflections: abashed, abashing, abashes
- related terms: abashless, abashment
- affect (6 letter word)
- inflections: affected, affecting, affects
- related terms: disaffect, disaffection, disaffectation, misaffect, misaffection, overaffect, preaffect, preaffection, reaffect, reaffection, Affectee, affectless, affectuous, affectable, affectible, affectate, affecter, affector, affectious, affection, affectation, affective
- alter (5 letter word)
- inflections: altered, altering, alters
- related terms: Unalter, exalter, exaltee, exaltment, exaltate, exaltation, exaltative, misalter, prealter, prealteration, realter, realterable, realteration, alterable, alterate, alterer, alterant, alteration, alterity, alterman, alterative
- arouse (6 letter word)
- inflections: aroused, arousing, arouses
- related terms: rearouse, rearousal, subarouse, subarousal, arousal, arousable, arouser
- change (6 letter word)
- inflections: changed, changing, changes
- related terms: unchange, exchange, exchangee, exchanger, transchange, transchanger, counterchange, interchange, interchanger, rechange, changable, changer
- damage (6 letter word)
- inflections: damaged, damaging, damages
- related terms: indamage, Photodamage, predamage, redamage, damager, damageous
- defeat (6 letter word)
- inflections: defeated, defeating, defeats
- related terms: undefeat, undefeatable, predefeat, redefeat, defeatee, defeatism, defeatist, defeatment, defeature, Defeatocrat, Defeatable, defeater
- elicit (6 letter word)
- inflections: elicited, eliciting, elicits
- related terms: elicitable, elicitate, elicitor, elicitation
- evoke (5 letter word)
- inflections: evoked, evoking, evokes
- related terms: reevoke, re-evoke, evoker
- fire (4 letter word, one of the shortest hypernyms for afflict)
- inflections: fired, firing, fires
- related terms: afire, Autofire, Co-Fire, counterfire, misfire, outfire, Prefire, refire, retrofire, underfire, fire-free, fireless, firelike, fireling, Fireship, fireable, firer, fireman, firemanship, Firewoman, fireward
- forge (5 letter word)
- inflections: forged, forging, forges
- related terms: reforge, reforger, reforgive, forgery, forgette, forger, forgive
- form (4 letter word, one of the shortest hypernyms for afflict)
- inflections: formed, forming, forms
- related terms: deform, deformism, deformable, deformer, deformation, deformity, deformative, unform, unformal, Unformable, unformative, conform, conformal, conformism, conformist, conformable, conformate, conformance, conformer, conformant, conformation, conformity, Conformative, inform, informal, Informee, informable, informer, informous, informant, information, informity, informative, transform, transformism, transformist, transformable, transformance, transformer, Transformant, transformation, Transformity, transformative, disform, disformity, equiform, equiformal, equiformity, Interform, microform, micro-form, misform, misformation, outform, perform, Performic, performable, performance, performer, performant, performative, postform, preform, preformism, preformist, preformant, preformation, preformative, reform, reformism, reformist, reformable, reformate, reformer, reformation, reformative, re-form, re-former, re-formation, re-formative, retroform, subform, subformation, subformative, Surform, underform, formal, formee, formful, formic, formism, formless, Formlike, formy, formable, formate, formiate, former, formous, formant, formation, formity, formative, formly
- kindle (6 letter word)
- inflections: kindled, kindling, kindles
- related terms: akindle, inkindle, miskindle, prekindle, rekindle, rekindler, upkindle, kindless, kindly, kindler
- modify (6 letter word)
- inflections: modified, modifying, modifies
- related terms: Commodify, overmodify, Postmodify, premodify, Premodifier, remodify, Submodify, modifiable, modifier
- mold (4 letter word, one of the shortest hypernyms for afflict)
- inflections: molded, molding, molds
- related terms: unmold, unmoldy, unmoldable, transmold, premold, premolder, remold, moldery, Moldlike, moldy, moldable, molder
- mould (5 letter word)
- inflections: moulded, moulding, moulds
- related terms: unmould, unmouldy, unmouldable, transmould, remould, mouldery, mouldy, Mouldable, moulder
- move (4 letter word, one of the shortest hypernyms for afflict)
- inflections: moved, moving, moves
- related terms: amove, amovable, demove, commove, Comove, countermove, counter-move, emove, mismove, outmove, Postmove, premove, premover, remove, removal, removable, remover, upmove, Moval, moveless, movement, moveable, mover
- raise (5 letter word)
- inflections: raised, raising, raises
- related terms: araise, coraise, misraise, outraise, reraise, upraise, upraisal, upraiser, raisine, raisable, raiser
- shape (5 letter word)
- inflections: shaped, shaping, shapes
- related terms: unshape, unshapen, unshapable, transhape, trans-shape, foreshape, misshape, misshapen, outshape, preshape, reshape, Reshapable, shapen, shapeful, shapeless, Shapelet, shapeable, shaper, shapely
- strike (6 letter word)
- inflections: struck, stricken, striking, strikes
- related terms: unstrike, counterstrike, outstrike, overstrike, Poststrike, restrike, understrike, upstrike, Strikee, striken, strikeless, Strikelike, striker
- touch (5 letter word)
- inflections: touched, touching, touches
- related terms: untouch, untouchable, countertouch, intertouch, mistouch, retouch, retouchment, retouchable, retoucher, touchless, touchy, touchable, toucher, touchous
- untune (6 letter word)
- inflections: untuned, untuning, untunes
- related term: untunable
- upset (5 letter word)
- inflections: upset, upsetting, upsets
- related terms: unupset, upsetment, Upsetness
- work (4 letter word, one of the shortest hypernyms for afflict)
- inflections: wrought, worked, working, works
- related terms: awork, unwork, unworkable, unworker, inwork, a-work, co-work, co-worker, counterwork, counterworker, interwork, outwork, outworker, overwork, Postwork, Prework, rework, Telework, underwork, underworker, underworkman, upwork, workaholic, workful, workless, Worklike, workship, worksome, worky, workable, worker, workman, workmanship, workwoman, Workly, workwise
More generic words for the verb afflict, that have the same number of characters:
- disturb (7 letter word)
- inflections: disturbed, disturbing, disturbs
- related terms: predisturb, predisturbance, redisturb, disturbance, disturber, disturbor, disturbant, disturbation, disturbative
- impress (7 letter word)
- inflections: impressed, impressing, impresses
- related terms: overimpress, overimpressible, preimpress, preimpressive, reimpress, impressment, impressure, impressable, impressible, impresser, impressor, impressive
- provoke (7 letter word)
- inflections: provoked, provoking, provokes
- related terms: unprovoke, unprovokable, misprovoke, overprovoke, preprovoke, reprovoke, provokee, provokable, provoker
More generic words for the verb afflict, that have more characters:
- discomfit (9 letter word)
- inflections: discomfited, discomfiting, discomfits
- related terms: discomfiture, discomfiter
- discompose (10 letter word, one of the longest hypernyms for afflict)
- inflections: discomposed, discomposing, discomposes
- related term: discomposure
- disconcert (10 letter word, one of the longest hypernyms for afflict)
- inflections: disconcerted, disconcerting, disconcerts
- related terms: disconcertment, disconcertion
- displace (8 letter word)
- inflections: displaced, displacing, displaces
- related terms: predisplace, Retrodisplace, displacer, Displacive
- embarrass (9 letter word)
- inflections: embarrassed, embarrassing, embarrasses
- related terms: disembarrass, disembarrassment, preembarrass, preembarrassment, pre-embarrass, pre-embarrassment, re-embarrass, re-embarrassment, embarrassment, Embarrassable
- enkindle (8 letter word)
- inflections: enkindled, enkindling, enkindles
- related terms: re-enkindle, enkindler
- overcome (8 letter word)
- inflections: overcame, overcome, overcoming, overcomes
- related terms: unovercome, unovercomable, overcomable, overcomer
More generic phrases for the verb afflict:
- get the better of (17 characters phrase, the longest phrasal hypernym for afflict)
- hit a nerve (11 character phrase)
- touch a nerve (13 character phrase)
Hyponyms of the verb afflict
More specific words for the verb afflict, that have fewer characters:
- blight (6 letter word)
- inflections: blighted, blighting, blights
- related terms: blighty, blighter
- bother (6 letter word)
- inflections: bothered, bothering, bothers
- related terms: botherment, bothersome, botherer, botheration
- chance (6 letter word)
- inflections: chanced, chancing, chances
- related terms: unchance, unchancy, mischance, mischancy, perchance, chancery, chancy, chancer
- clamp (5 letter word)
- inflections: clamped, clamping, clamps
- related terms: unclamp, Clamplike
- degust (6 letter word)
- inflections: degusted, degusting, degusts
- related terms: degustate, degustation
- dun (3 letter word, one of the shortest hyponyms for afflict)
- inflections: dunned, dunning, duns
- related terms: dunal, dunite, dunness, duny
- extend (6 letter word)
- inflections: extended, extending, extends
- related terms: coextend, counterextend, overextend, preextend, pre-extend, Reëxtend, re-extend, extendable, extendible, extender
- fight (5 letter word)
- inflections: fought, fighting, fights
- related terms: unfight, unfightable, infight, infighter, outfight, outfighter, Postfight, Prefight, refight, fightable, fighter
- float (5 letter word)
- inflections: floated, floating, floats
- related terms: afloat, outfloat, overfloat, refloat, refloatation, upfloat, floatage, floatless, floaty, floatable, floater, floatation, floatman, floative, floatative
- foist (5 letter word)
- inflections: foisted, foisting, foists
- related terms: Foistware, foisty, foister
- gamble (6 letter word)
- inflections: gambled, gambling, gambles
- related terms: outgamble, overgamble, regamble, gambler
- give (4 letter word)
- inflections: gave, given, giving, gives
- related terms: ungive, ungiven, ungivable, misgive, misgiven, outgive, outgiven, overgive, regive, regiven, upgive, given, givey, giveable, giver
- goad (4 letter word)
- inflections: goaded, goading, goads
- related terms: overgoad, goadlike
- grieve (6 letter word)
- inflections: grieved, grieving, grieves
- related terms: ungrieve, overgrieve, overgrievous, undergrieve, grievable, grievance, griever, grievous, grievant
- grope (5 letter word)
- inflections: groped, groping, gropes
- related terms: agrope, undergrope, groper
- haunt (5 letter word)
- inflections: haunted, haunting, haunts
- related terms: unhaunt, dishaunt, prehaunt, haunty, haunter
- hazard (6 letter word)
- inflections: hazarded, hazarding, hazards
- related terms: perhazard, prehazard, prehazardous, rehazard, hazardful, hazardless, hazardable, hazarder, hazardous, hazardize
- haze (4 letter word)
- inflections: hazed, hazing, hazes
- related terms: hazen, hazeless, hazer
- mourn (5 letter word)
- inflections: mourned, mourning, mourns
- related terms: comourn, comournful, comourner, overmourn, overmournful, premourn, mournful, mournsome, mourner
- needle (6 letter word)
- inflections: needled, needling, needles
- related terms: Microneedle, micro-needle, needless, needly, needler
- order (5 letter word)
- inflections: ordered, ordering, orders
- related terms: unorder, Inorder, co-order, counterorder, disorder, foreorder, misorder, overorder, postorder, preorder, reorder, Reorderer, suborder, Underorder, orderless, orderable, orderer, orderly
- pity (4 letter word)
- inflections: pitied, pitying, pities
- related terms: unpity, unpitiful, unpitiable, outpity, uppity, Uppitiness, pitiful, pitiless, pitiable, pitier
- plague (6 letter word)
- inflections: plagued, plaguing, plagues
- related terms: plaguy, plaguer
- rack (4 letter word)
- inflections: racked, racking, racks
- related terms: unrack, overrack, rerack, reracker, rackful, rackless, racker, rackman
- rag (3 letter word, one of the shortest hyponyms for afflict)
- inflections: ragged, ragging, rags
- related terms: ragee, ragery, raglet, Raglike, rager, rageous, ragman
- rehear (6 letter word)
- inflections: reheard, rehearing, rehears
- resift (6 letter word)
- inflections: resifted, resifting, resifts
- retry (5 letter word)
- inflections: retried, retrying, retries
- related terms: retrial, Retriable, retrier
- rice (4 letter word)
- riddle (6 letter word)
- inflections: riddled, riddling, riddles
- related terms: unriddle, unriddler, underriddle, riddler
- risk (4 letter word)
- inflections: risked, risking, risks
- related terms: riskful, risk-free, riskish, riskless, risky, risker
- screen (6 letter word)
- inflections: screened, screening, screens
- related terms: Descreen, unscreen, unscreenable, Overscreen, Prescreen, rescreen, Subscreen, telescreen, screenage, screendom, screenful, screenless, screenlike, screeny, screenable, screener, screenman, screenwise
- see (3 letter word, one of the shortest hyponyms for afflict)
- inflections: saw, seen, seeing, sees
- related terms: unsee, unsure, unseize, unsely, insee, insure, foresee, foresey, foreseize, Missee, outsee, oversee, oversure, presee, preser, resee, Resen, reseise, reseize, undersee, seal, seen, seeling, seeable, seer, seor, seely
- strain (6 letter word)
- inflections: strained, straining, strains
- related terms: astrain, unstrain, constrain, constrainment, constrainable, constrainer, a-strain, Interstrain, Microstrain, outstrain, overstrain, prestrain, restrain, restrainable, restrainer, re-strain, understrain, withstrain, strainless, strainable, strainer
- stress (6 letter word)
- inflections: stressed, stressing, stresses
- related terms: destress, unstress, forestress, microstress, micro-stress, overstress, prestress, restress, understress, stressful, stressless, Stresslet, Stressy, stresser, stressor
- strive (6 letter word)
- inflections: strove, striven, striving, strives, strived
- related terms: interstrive, outstrive, outstriven, overstrive, restrive, restriven, upstrive, striven, striver
- task (4 letter word)
- inflections: tasked, tasking, tasks
- related terms: intertask, outtask, overtask, subtask, taskage, taskless, tasklike, tasker
- tax (3 letter word, one of the shortest hyponyms for afflict)
- inflections: taxed, taxing, taxes
- related terms: ATAX, detax, untax, untaxable, Mistax, overtax, overtaxation, Posttax, pretax, pretaxation, retax, retaxation, surtax, undertax, tax-free, taxine, taxite, taxless, Taxlike, taxy, taxable, taxer, taxor, taxation, taxman, Taxwoman, taxative, taxwise
- try (3 letter word, one of the shortest hyponyms for afflict)
- inflections: tried, trying, tries
- related terms: atry, atrial, a-try, mistry, mistrial, Overtry, pretry, pretrial, retry, retrial, Retriable, retrier, re-try, triage, trial, triarian, trisome, triable, Triate, trier, trior
- verify (6 letter word)
- inflections: verified, verifying, verifies
- related terms: preverify, reverify, verifiable, verifier
- visit (5 letter word)
- inflections: visited, visiting, visits
- related terms: covisit, covisitor, intervisit, intervisitation, previsit, previsitor, revisit, revisitable, revisitant, revisitation, visitee, visitment, visitable, visitate, visiter, visitor, visitant, visitation, visitative
- winnow (6 letter word)
- inflections: winnowed, winnowing, winnows
- related term: winnower
More specific words for the verb afflict, that have the same number of characters:
- bedevil (7 letter word)
- inflections: bedevilled, bedevilling, bedeviled, bedeviling, bedevils
- related terms: bedevilling, bedevilment
- control (7 letter word)
- inflections: controlled, controlling, controls
- related terms: decontrol, decontrolling, uncontrol, uncontrolling, overcontrol, overcontrolling, Photocontrol, precontrol, precontrolling, recontrol, recontrolling, subcontrol, subcontrolling, Controlee, controlless, controlling, controlment
- crucify (7 letter word)
- inflections: crucified, crucifying, crucifies
- related terms: cocrucify, recrucify, crucifier
- dictate (7 letter word)
- inflections: dictated, dictating, dictates
- related terms: predictate, predictable, predictor, prediction, predictation, predictive, redictate, redictation, dictature, dictator, dictation, dictative
- intrude (7 letter word)
- inflections: intruded, intruding, intrudes
- related terms: reintrude, intrudance, intruder
- jawbone (7 letter word)
- inflections: jawboned, jawboning, jawbones
- obtrude (7 letter word)
- inflections: obtruded, obtruding, obtrudes
- related terms: preobtrude, obtruder
- shmoose (7 letter word)
- inflections: shmoosed, shmoosing, shmooses
- shmooze (7 letter word)
- inflections: shmoozed, shmoozing, shmoozes
- stretch (7 letter word)
- inflections: stretched, stretching, stretches
- related terms: unstretch, unstretchable, outstretch, outstretcher, overstretch, prestretch, restretch, upstretch, stretchy, stretchable, stretcher
- torment (7 letter word)
- inflections: tormented, tormenting, torments
- related terms: cotorment, tormentful, tormentable, tormenter, tormentor, tormentous, tormentation, tormentive, tormentative
- trouble (7 letter word)
- inflections: troubled, troubling, troubles
- related terms: untrouble, untroublable, distrouble, overtrouble, troubly, troubler, troublous
More specific words for the verb afflict, that have more characters:
- adventure (9 letter word)
- inflections: adventured, adventuring, adventures
- related terms: coadventure, coadventuress, coadventurer, co-adventure, disadventure, disadventurous, maladventure, misadventure, misadventurer, misadventurous, peradventure, preadventure, readventure, adventuress, adventurish, adventurism, adventurist, adventurer, adventurous
- aggrieve (8 letter word)
- inflections: aggrieved, aggrieving, aggrieves
- related terms: aggrievance, Aggriever
- background (10 letter word)
- inflections: backgrounded, backgrounding, backgrounds
- related term: backgrounder
- compassionate (13 letter word, the longest hyponym for afflict)
- inflections: compassionated, compassionating, compassionates
- related terms: uncompassionate, incompassionate, Discompassionate, compassionless, compassionable
- downplay (8 letter word)
- inflections: downplayed, downplaying, downplays
- emphasise (9 letter word)
- inflections: emphasised, emphasising, emphasises
- related terms: de-emphasise, overemphasise, re-emphasise, emphasize, Emphasization
- emphasize (9 letter word)
- inflections: emphasized, emphasizing, emphasizes
- related terms: deemphasize, de-emphasize, de-emphasise, misemphasize, overemphasize, overemphasise, reemphasize, re-emphasize, re-emphasise, underemphasize, emphasise, Emphasization
- endeavor (8 letter word)
- inflections: endeavored, endeavoring, endeavors
- related terms: misendeavor, preendeavor, pre-endeavor, Endeavorment, endeavorer
- endeavour (9 letter word)
- inflections: endeavoured, endeavouring, endeavours
- related term: endeavourer
- frequent (8 letter word)
- inflections: frequented, frequenting, frequents
- related terms: unfrequent, infrequent, infrequence, disfrequent, Equifrequent, overfrequent, frequentage, frequency, Frequential, Frequentist, frequentness, frequentable, frequenter, frequentation, frequentative, frequently
- frustrate (9 letter word)
- inflections: frustrated, frustrating, frustrates
- related terms: refrustrate, frustrater, frustration, frustrative
- jaundice (8 letter word)
- inflections: jaundiced, jaundicing, jaundices
- overextend (10 letter word)
- inflections: overextended, overextending, overextends
- overstrain (10 letter word)
- inflections: overstrained, overstraining, overstrains
- prescribe (9 letter word)
- inflections: prescribed, prescribing, prescribes
- related terms: Misprescribe, Overprescribe, represcribe, Underprescribe, prescribable, prescriber
- schmoose (8 letter word)
- inflections: schmoosed, schmoosing, schmooses
- schmooze (8 letter word)
- sightsee (8 letter word)
- inflections: sightsaw, sightseen, sightseeing, sightsees
- struggle (8 letter word)
- inflections: struggled, struggling, struggles
- related terms: counterstruggle, prestruggle, upstruggle, struggler
- topicalize (10 letter word)
- tribulate (9 letter word)
- inflections: tribulated, tribulating, tribulates
- related terms: tribuloid, tribulation
- underline (9 letter word)
- inflections: underlined, underlining, underlines
- related terms: underlinen, underliner
- underscore (10 letter word)
- inflections: underscored, underscoring, underscores
More specific phrases for the verb afflict, that have the same number of characters:
- come by (7 character phrase)
- drop by (7 character phrase)
- drop in (7 character phrase)
- set off (7 character phrase)
- take in (7 character phrase)
More specific phrases for the verb afflict, that have more characters:
- bear down (9 character phrase)
- bring out (9 character phrase)
- condole with (12 character phrase)
- drive home (10 character phrase)
- extend oneself (14 character phrase)
- feel for (8 character phrase)
- give it a try (13 character phrase)
- give it a whirl (15 character phrase)
- have a go (9 character phrase)
- inconvenience oneself (21 characters phrase, the longest phrasal hyponym for afflict)
- kill oneself (12 character phrase)
- lay on the line (15 character phrase)
- overexert oneself (17 character phrase)
- pick up the gauntlet (20 character phrase)
- play down (9 character phrase)
- point up (8 character phrase)
- press home (10 character phrase)
- put on the line (15 character phrase)
- ram home (8 character phrase)
- run a risk (10 character phrase)
- sympathize with (15 character phrase)
- take a chance (13 character phrase)
- take a dare (11 character phrase)
- take chances (12 character phrase)
- trouble oneself (15 character phrase)
Other more specific terms for the verb afflict:
- court-martial (13 character term)
- inflections: court-martialled, court-martialling
- field-test (10 character term)
- re-emphasise (12 character term)
- related term: re-emphasize
- re-emphasize (12 character term)
- related term: re-emphasise
Related terms of afflict
Related words for the term afflict, that have fewer characters:
- abuse (5 letter word)
- inflections: abused, abusing, abuses
- related terms: disabuse, disabusal, overabuse, overabusive, reabuse, abusage, abusee, abusable, abuser, abusious, abusive
- ail (3 letter word)
- inflections: ailed, ailing, ails
- related terms: ailette, ailment
- annoy (5 letter word)
- inflections: annoyed, annoying, annoys
- related terms: reannoy, reannoyance, annoyment, Annoyware, annoyance, annoyous
- befoul (6 letter word)
- inflections: befouled, befouling, befouls
- related terms: befoulment, befouler
- bite (4 letter word)
- inflections: bit, bitten, biting, bites
- related terms: debite, Debitage, debitable, debitor, combite, overbite, rebite, underbite, biteless, biteable, biter
- burden (6 letter word)
- inflections: burdened, burdening, burdens
- related terms: unburden, unburdenment, unburdensome, disburden, disburdenment, overburden, overburdensome, reburden, burdenless, burdensome, burdenable, burdener, burdenous
- burn (4 letter word)
- inflections: burned, building, builds, burnt, burning, burns
- related terms: unburn, unburnable, Inburn, outburn, overburn, preburn, reburn, reburnish, underburn, upburn, burnish, Burnlike, burny, burnable, burner, burnous
- chafe (5 letter word)
- inflections: chafed, chafing, chafes
- related terms: achafe, overchafe, rechafe, chafery, chafer
- crush (5 letter word)
- inflections: crushed, crushing, crushes
- related terms: recrush, recrusher, Crushee, crushable, crusher
- curse (5 letter word)
- inflections: curst, cursed, cursing, curses
- related terms: uncurse, incurse, incursive, excurse, Excursor, excursive, Countercurse, outcurse, precurse, precursal, precursor, precursive, recurse, recursant, recursive, cursal, cursen, curser, cursor, cursive
- cut (3 letter word)
- inflections: cut, cutting, cuts
- related terms: uncut, incut, intercut, miscut, outcut, overcut, precut, recut, undercut, upcut, cutify, cutlet, cutling, cuter, cutization
- defile (6 letter word)
- inflections: defiled, defiling, defiles
- related terms: defilade, defilable, defiler
- doom (4 letter word)
- inflections: doomed, dooming, dooms
- related terms: foredoom, foredoomer, Misdoom, predoom, redoom, doomage, doomful, doomlike, doomer
- fester (6 letter word)
- inflections: festered, festering, festers
- related terms: unfester, unfestive, infester, infestment, infestious, infestant, infestation, infestive, festerment
- fret (4 letter word)
- inflections: fretted, fretting, frets
- related terms: afret, unfret, unfretful, interfret, overfret, fretful, fretish, fretless, fretsome, fretize, Fretman, fretwise
- gall (4 letter word)
- inflections: galled, galling, galls
- related terms: egall, egalite, egality, egally, gallery, gallian, gallic, galline, gallish, Gallite, gall-like, gally, gallate, galler, gallous, gallize, gallant
- gnaw (4 letter word)
- inflections: gnawn, gnawed, gnawing, gnaws
- related terms: ungnaw, outgnaw, undergnaw, gnawable, gnawer
- grate (5 letter word)
- inflections: grated, grating, grates
- related terms: ingrate, ingratiate, regrate, regracy, regratify, regrater, regrator, grateful, gratify, grateless, gratelike, grater, grateman, gratewise
- grind (5 letter word)
- inflections: ground, grinding, grinds
- related terms: overgrind, Pregrind, regrind, regrinder, grindal, grindery, grindable, grinder
- gripe (5 letter word)
- inflections: griped, griping, gripes
- related terms: ungripe, gripeful, gripey, griper
- harass (6 letter word)
- inflections: harassed, harassing, harasses
- related terms: overharass, overharassment, harassment, harassable, harasser
- harm (4 letter word)
- inflections: harmed, harming, harms
- related terms: reharm, harmal, harmful, harmine, harmless, harmer
- harrow (6 letter word)
- inflections: harrowed, harrowing, harrows
- related terms: reharrow, upharrow, harrowment, harrower
- harry (5 letter word)
- inflections: harried, harrying, harries
- related terms: harrier, harriman
- hex (3 letter word)
- inflections: hexed, hexing, hexes
- related terms: unhex, hexade, hexine, hexer
- hurt (4 letter word)
- inflections: hurt, hurting, hurts
- related terms: unhurt, unhurtful, Unhurtable, hurtful, hurtless, hurtling, hurtsome, hurty, hurtable, hurter
- impair (6 letter word)
- inflections: impaired, impairing, impairs
- related terms: unimpair, unimpairable, preimpair, preimpairment, impairment, impairable, impairer
- infect (6 letter word)
- inflections: infected, infecting, infects
- related terms: disinfect, disinfecter, disinfector, disinfectant, disinfection, Disinfectation, disinfective, preinfect, preinfection, reinfect, reinfectious, reinfection, Infectee, infectuous, Infectable, infectible, infecter, infector, infectious, infectant, infection, infective
- injure (6 letter word)
- inflections: injured, injuring, injures
- related terms: preinjure, preinjury, preinjurious, reinjure, reinjury, injury, injurable, injurer, injurious
- irk (3 letter word)
- inflections: irked, irking, irks
- related term: irksome
- jinx (4 letter word)
- inflections: jinxed, jinxing, jinxes
- related terms: Unjinx, outjinx
- martyr (6 letter word)
- inflections: martyred, martyring, martyrs
- related terms: unmartyr, co-martyr, foremartyr, martyrdom, martyress, Martyrial, martyrish, Martyrless, martyrlike, martyrship, martyry, martyrer, martyrise, martyrize, martyrisation, martyrization, martyrly
- menace (6 letter word)
- inflections: menaced, menacing, menaces
- related terms: premenace, remenace, menacer
- molest (6 letter word)
- inflections: molested, molesting, molests
- related terms: unmolest, molestful, Molestable, molester, molestious, molestation
- nip (3 letter word)
- inflections: nipped, nipping, nips
- pain (4 letter word)
- inflections: pained, paining, pains
- related terms: copain, underpain, painful, pain-free, Painite, painless, Painlike, painty
- pester (6 letter word)
- inflections: pestered, pestering, pesters
- related terms: compester, impester, impestation, pesterment, pestersome, pesterer, pesterous
- pierce (6 letter word)
- inflections: pierced, piercing, pierces
- related terms: impierce, transpierce, Piercee, piercer, piercent
- pinch (5 letter word)
- inflections: pinched, pinching, pinches
- related terms: apinch, a-pinch, Pinchite, Pinchlike, Pinchy, pinchable, pincher
- poison (6 letter word)
- inflections: poisoned, poisoning, poisons
- related terms: unpoison, unpoisonable, unpoisonous, impoison, impoisoner, counterpoison, outpoison, prepoison, poisonful, poisonless, Poisonlike, poisonable, poisoner, poisonous
- press (5 letter word)
- inflections: pressed, pressing, presses
- related terms: depress, depressure, depressible, depressor, depressant, depressive, compress, compressure, compressible, compressor, compressive, impress, impressment, impressure, impressable, impressible, impresser, impressor, impressive, express, expressage, expressless, expressness, expressure, expressable, expressible, expresser, expressor, expressman, expressive, expressly, dispress, outpress, overpress, overpressure, Prepress, repress, repressment, repressure, repressible, represser, repressor, repressive, re-press, subpress, pressage, pressdom, pressful, pressure, pressable, pressible, presser, pressor, pressman, pressmanship, presswoman, pressive, pressly
- prick (5 letter word)
- inflections: pricked, pricking, pricks
- related terms: counterprick, overprick, upprick, prickish, prickless, prickling, pricky, pricker, prickant, prickly
- rankle (6 letter word)
- inflections: rankled, rankling, rankles
- related terms: rankless, rankly
- rasp (4 letter word)
- inflections: rasped, rasping, rasps
- related terms: raspish, raspite, raspy
- reduce (6 letter word)
- inflections: reduced, reducing, reduces
- related terms: overreduce, overreduction, re-reduce, re-reduction, reducible, reducer, Reducant, reducent, reduction, reductive
- rub (3 letter word)
- inflections: rubbed, rubbing, rubs
- related terms: inrub, rerub, Ruben, rubian, rubify, rubine, ruby, rubible, rubiate, rubor, rubious
- savage (6 letter word)
- inflections: savaged, savaging, savages
- related terms: unsavage, dissavage, presavage, presavagery, savagery, savagess, savagism, savager, savagize
- scathe (6 letter word)
- inflections: scathed, scathing, scathes
- related terms: scathful, scathy
- sicken (6 letter word)
- inflections: sickened, sickening, sickens
- related terms: resicken, sickener
- sorrow (6 letter word)
- inflections: sorrowed, sorrowing, sorrows
- related terms: oversorrow, oversorrowful, sorrowful, sorrowless, sorrowy, sorrower, Sorrowly
- stab (4 letter word)
- inflections: stabbed, stabbing, stabs
- related terms: estab, restab, restabling, stabling, stably
- sting (5 letter word)
- inflections: stung, stinging, stings
- related terms: unsting, costing, contrasting, foresting, outsting, resting, stingless, stingy, stinger
- taint (5 letter word)
- inflections: tainted, tainting, taints
- related terms: untaint, untaintable, taint-free, taintless, taintment, tainture, taintable, taintor
- tweak (5 letter word)
- twist (5 letter word)
- inflections: twisted, twisting, twists
- related terms: atwist, untwist, untwistable, untwister, intwist, a-twist, cotwist, intertwist, overtwist, retwist, uptwist, twistless, twisty, twistable, twister, Twistor
- vex (3 letter word)
- inflections: vexed, vexing, vexes, vext
- related terms: devex, devexity, convex, Convexify, convexness, convexity, convexly, vexful, vexable, vexer, vexation
- weaken (6 letter word)
- inflections: weakened, weakening, weakens
- related terms: unweaken, reweaken, weakener
- worry (5 letter word)
- inflections: worried, worrying, worries
- related terms: aworry, interworry, overworry, worriless, worriment, worrisome, worriable, worrier, Worrily
- wound (5 letter word)
- inflections: wounded, wounding, wounds
- related terms: unwound, unwoundable, inwound, ewound, interwound, overwound, prewound, rewound, underwound, upwound, wound-free, woundless, Woundlike, woundy, woundable, wounder, woundly
- wring (5 letter word)
- inflections: wrung, wringing, wrings
- related terms: outwring, outwrite, upwring, wringer, wringman
- wrong (5 letter word)
- inflections: wronged, wronging, wrongs
- related terms: awrong, wrongful, wrongish, wrongless, wrongness, wronger, wrongous, wrongly, wrongwise
Related words for the term afflict, that have the same number of characters:
- agitate (7 letter word)
- inflections: agitated, agitating, agitates
- related terms: circumagitate, circumagitation, exagitate, exagitation, coagitate, counteragitate, counteragitation, overagitate, overagitation, preagitate, preagitation, reagitate, reagitation, agitable, agitant, agitation, agitative
- agonize (7 letter word)
- inflections: agonized, agonizing, agonizes
- related terms: unagonize, coagonize, Coagonist, overagonize, agonal, agonic, Agonism, agonist, agony, agonise, Agonization
- anguish (7 letter word)
- inflections: anguished, anguishing, anguishes
- related terms: anguishful, anguishous, Anguishly
- bewitch (7 letter word)
- inflections: bewitched, bewitching, bewitches
- related terms: unbewitch, counterbewitch, bewitchery, bewitchful, bewitchment, Bewitchable, bewitcher
- condemn (7 letter word)
- inflections: condemned, condemning, condemns
- related terms: forecondemn, precondemn, precondemnation, recondemn, recondemnation, condemnable, condemnate, condemner, condemnor, condemnation
- corrupt (7 letter word)
- inflections: corrupted, corrupting, corrupts
- related terms: uncorrupt, uncorruptness, uncorruptible, uncorruption, uncorruptive, uncorruptly, incorrupt, incorruptness, incorruptible, incorruption, incorruptive, incorruptly, overcorrupt, overcorruption, overcorruptly, precorrupt, precorruptness, precorruption, precorruptive, precorruptly, recorrupt, recorruption, corruptful, corruptless, corruptness, Corruptable, corruptible, corrupter, corruptor, corruptious, corruption, corruptive, corruptly
- deprave (7 letter word)
- inflections: depraved, depraving, depraves
- related terms: depravate, depraver, depravation, depravity
- derange (7 letter word)
- inflections: deranged, deranging, deranges
- related term: deranger
- despoil (7 letter word)
- inflections: despoiled, despoiling, despoils
- related terms: despoilment, despoiler, despoilation
- destroy (7 letter word)
- inflections: destroyed, destroying, destroys
- related term: predestroy
- disable (7 letter word)
- inflections: disabled, disabling, disables
- related terms: predisable, predislike, redisable, Disablism, disabler
- envenom (7 letter word)
- inflections: envenomed, envenoming, envenoms
- related terms: Envenomate, envenomous, envenomization, envenomation
- inflame (7 letter word)
- inflections: inflamed, inflaming, inflames
- related terms: disinflame, misinflame, reinflame, inflamable, inflamer
- invalid (7 letter word)
- inflections: invalided, invaliding, invalids
- related terms: ex-invalid, invalidcy, invalidhood, invalidish, invalidism, invalidness, invalidship, invalidate, invalidation, invalidity, invalidly
- oppress (7 letter word)
- inflections: oppressed, oppressing, oppresses
- related terms: preoppress, preoppressor, reoppress, oppressible, oppressor, oppressive
- outrage (7 letter word)
- inflections: outraged, outraging, outrages
- related terms: reoutrage, outrager, outrageous
- perturb (7 letter word)
- inflections: perturbed, perturbing, perturbs
- related terms: perturbment, perturbable, perturbate, perturbance, perturber, perturbant, perturbation, perturbative
- pollute (7 letter word)
- inflections: polluted, polluting, pollutes
- related terms: impollute, repollute, Pollutable, polluter, pollutant, pollution, pollutive
- torture (7 letter word)
- inflections: tortured, torturing, tortures
- related terms: untorture, cotorture, overtorture, pretorture, retorture, Torturess, torturable, torturer, torturous
- violate (7 letter word)
- inflections: violated, violating, violates
- related terms: unviolate, unviolable, unviolent, unviolative, inviolate, inviolable, previolate, previolation, reviolate, reviolation, violature, violater, violator, violation, violative
Related words for the term afflict, that have more characters:
- convulse (8 letter word)
- inflections: convulsed, convulsing, convulses
- related terms: convulsible, convulsant, convulsive
- debilitate (10 letter word)
- inflections: debilitated, debilitating, debilitates
- related terms: overdebilitate, debility, debilitant, debilitation, debilitative
- desolate (8 letter word)
- inflections: desolated, desolating, desolates
- related terms: predesolate, predesolation, desolation, desolative
- devitalize (10 letter word)
- inflections: devitalized, devitalizing, devitalizes
- related term: devitation
- disadvantage (12 letter word)
- inflections: disadvantaged, disadvantaging, disadvantages
- related terms: predisadvantage, predisadvantageous, disadvantageous
- discomfort (10 letter word)
- inflections: discomforted, discomforting, discomforts
- related terms: discomfortable, discomforter
- disorder (8 letter word)
- inflections: disordered, disordering, disorders
- related term: predisorder
- disquiet (8 letter word)
- inflections: disquieted, disquieting, disquiets
- related terms: disquieten, disquietness, disquieter, disquietly
- disserve (8 letter word)
- inflections: disserved, disserving, disserves
- distress (8 letter word)
- inflections: distressed, distressing, distresses
- related terms: undistress, predistress, distressful
- embitter (8 letter word)
- inflections: embittered, embittering, embitters
- related term: disembitter
- enervate (8 letter word)
- inflections: enervated, enervating, enervates
- related terms: enervous, enervation, enervative
- enfeeble (8 letter word)
- inflections: enfeebled, enfeebling, enfeebles
- related terms: enfeeblish, enfeebler
- excruciate (10 letter word)
- inflections: excruciated, excruciating, excruciates
- related terms: excruciable, excruciation
- hospitalize (11 letter word)
- inflections: hospitalized, hospitalizing, hospitalizes
- related terms: rehospitalize, hospitage, hospital, hospitable, hospitate, hospitious, hospitize, hospitant, hospitation
- incapacitate (12 letter word)
- inflections: incapacitated, incapacitating, incapacitates
- related terms: incapacity, incapacitant, incapacitation, Incapacitative
- indispose (9 letter word)
- inflections: indisposed, indisposing, indisposes
- related terms: preindispose, preindisposition, Indisposable, indisposition
- inundate (8 letter word)
- inflections: inundated, inundating, inundates
- related terms: inundable, inundant, inundation
- irritate (8 letter word)
- inflections: irritated, irritating, irritates
- related terms: counterirritate, counterirritant, counterirritation, irritable, irritant, irritation, irritative
- lacerate (8 letter word)
- inflections: lacerated, lacerating, lacerates
- related terms: delacerate, lacery, lacerable, lacerant, laceration, lacerative
- maltreat (8 letter word)
- inflections: maltreated, maltreating, maltreats
- related terms: maltreatment, maltreater, maltreator
- martyrize (9 letter word)
- inflections: martyrized, martyrizing, martyrizes
- related terms: martyrdom, martyress, Martyrial, martyrish, Martyrless, martyrlike, martyrship, martyry, martyrer, martyrise, martyrisation, martyrization, martyrly
- mistreat (8 letter word)
- inflections: mistreated, mistreating, mistreats
- related terms: mistreatment, Mistreater
- overwhelm (9 letter word)
- inflections: overwhelmed, overwhelming, overwhelms
- related term: overwhelmer
- persecute (9 letter word)
- inflections: persecuted, persecuting, persecutes
- related terms: overpersecute, persecutee, persecutor, persecution, persecutive
- prejudice (9 letter word)
- inflections: prejudiced, prejudicing, prejudices
- related terms: unprejudice, unprejudicial, imprejudice, imprejudicate, Counterprejudice, disprejudice, prejudicial, prejudicate, prejudicious, prejudication, prejudicative
- prostrate (9 letter word)
- inflections: prostrated, prostrating, prostrates
- related terms: deprostrate, prostrator, prostration, prostrative
- threaten (8 letter word)
- inflections: threatened, threatening, threatens
- related terms: outthreaten, prethreaten, rethreaten, threatenable, threatener
- overafflict (11 letter word)
- related term: overaffliction
- preafflict (10 letter word)
- related term: preaffliction
- reafflict (9 letter word)
- afflicter (9 letter word)
- related terms: affliction, afflictive
- affliction (10 letter word)
- related terms: self-affliction, self-afflictive, unaffliction, overaffliction, preaffliction, afflicter, afflictive
- afflictive (10 letter word)
- related terms: self-afflictive, self-affliction, afflicter, affliction
Related phrases for the term afflict, that have fewer characters:
- cut up (6 character phrase)
- do ill (6 character phrase)
- lay up (6 character phrase)
Related phrase for the term afflict, that has the same number of characters:
- do evil (7 character phrase)
Related phrases for the term afflict, that have more characters:
- break down (10 character phrase)
- bring to tears (14 character phrase)
- do a mischief (13 character phrase)
- do wrong (8 character phrase)
- do wrong by (11 character phrase)
- draw tears (10 character phrase)
- get into trouble (16 character phrase)
- give pain (9 character phrase)
- inflict pain (12 character phrase)
- kill by inches (14 character phrase)
- load with care (14 character phrase)
- play havoc with (15 character phrase)
- play hob with (13 character phrase)
- prolong the agony (17 character phrase)
- put to it (9 character phrase)
- put to torture (14 character phrase)
- wreak havoc on (14 character phrase)
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