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əˈflɪktaf·flict
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afflict
Castigate and chastise refer strictly to corporal punishment, tho both are somewhat archaic; correct and punish are often used as euphemisms in preference to either. Punish is distinctly retributive in sense; chastise, partly retributive, and partly corrective; chasten, wholly corrective. Chasten is used exclusively in the spiritual sense, and chiefly of the visitation of God.
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castigate, chasten, chastise, correct, discipline, humble, punish, purify, refine, soften, subdue, tryPreposition:
"We are chastened of the Lord," 1 Cor. xi, 32; "they ... chastened us after their own pleasure, but He for our profit," Heb. xii, 10; "chasten in thy hot displeasure," Ps. iv, 7; chasten with pain; by trials and sorrows.
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Inflict vs. Afflict -- In this Grammar.com article you will learn the differences between the words Inflict and Afflict.
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#684 | try | |
#1847 | correct | |
#3140 | affect | |
#5397 | refine | |
#5491 | discipline | |
#12155 | humble | |
#15784 | plague | |
#17439 | punish | |
#30385 | soften | |
#36357 | purify | |
#54755 | subdue | |
#56460 | smite | |
#73447 | afflict | |
#105258 | chastise | |
#184683 | castigate | |
#216211 | bedevil | |
#246567 | chasten |
How to use afflict in a sentence?
The role of the Christian is to comfort the afflicted -- of course -- but also to afflict the comfortable. We have people who need to be afflicted a little bit, particularly in their outlook towards the poor and the marginalized.
Give not over thy soul to sorrow and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.
The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
John Kenneth Galbraith, Guardian (London, 28 July 1989):
In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.
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