afflict
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
cause great unhappiness for; distress
she was afflicted by the death of her parents
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- affliction derivation
- affliction derivation
- afflictive derivation
Sense 2 verb
cause physical pain or suffering in
afflict with the plague
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- affliction derivation
- afflictive derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | affliction |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | affliction |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | afflictive |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | untune |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | grieve |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | tribulate |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | strain |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | affliction |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | afflictive |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | damage |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | visit |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | plague |