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“We always say addiction is an equal opportunity affliction,” Skipper said.

The term Affluenza caused a national gag reflex—and as a doctor I can assure you that, no, Affluenza is not a real affliction.

It took that hideous affliction to remove the even more hideous affliction of destructive and ingrown stories.

Not only was TBI an unknown affliction in midcentury America, we pretended that the war was in the distant past.

Casey Schwartz on the science behind the rare affliction—and how it spreads.

For the affliction of the daughter of my people I am afflicted, and made sorrowful, astonishment hath taken hold on me.

I have borne me up against affliction, till my o'ercharged bosom can contain no longer.

It is an insult to them to leave them to join in pleasure from which their recent affliction excludes them.

The smoking furnace symbolized the people of Israel who were to be tried in the iron furnace of affliction in Egypt.

If, after affliction, your friends call before you are able to see them, do not fear to give offence by declining to receive them.

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On this page you'll find 152 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to affliction, such as: calamity, disease, disorder, hardship, illness, and infirmity.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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