Related Words for afflicting

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trouble
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Verb, Verb
pain
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Verb, Verb
ail
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Verb, Verb
smite
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Verb, Verb
plaguing
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Verb
besetting
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Verb
affecting
x/x
Verb
ravaging
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Noun
infecting
x/x
Noun
affliction
x/x
Noun
engulfing
x/x
Noun
impacting
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Verb
prevalent
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Adjective
malady
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Noun
pervading
x/x
Adjective
tormenting
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Adjective
crippling
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Noun
occurring
x/x
Verb
inflicting
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Verb
permeating
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Verb
terrorizing
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Verb
vexing
/x
Adjective
besieging
x/x
Verb
preventing
x/x
Verb
effecting
x/x
Verb
benefiting
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Verb
debilitating
x/xxx
Adjective
oppressing
x/x
Verb
hampering
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Verb
enveloping
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Noun
dealing
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Verb
ailment
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Noun
stricken
/x
Adjective
paralyzing
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Noun
remedying
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Verb
involving
x/x
Verb
harming
/x
Verb
alleviating
x/xxx
Verb
causing
/x
Verb
endemic
x/x
Adjective
confronting
x/x
Verb
surrounding
x/x
Verb
exacerbating
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Verb
burdening
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Verb
symptomatic
xx/x
Adjective
manifesting
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Verb
impairing
x/x
Verb
aggravating
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Adjective
hindering
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Verb
incapacitating
xx/xxx
Adjective
hurting
/x
Verb
subduing
x/x
Verb
inhabiting
x/xx
Verb
relieving
x/x
Verb
paralysing
x/xx
Noun
extricating
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Verb
destroying
x/x
Verb
rife
/
Adjective
encompassing
x/xx
Adjective
treating
/x
Verb
punishing
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Verb
battling
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Verb
ameliorating
x/xxx
Verb
characterizing
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Verb
corroding
x/x
Noun
worsening
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Verb
implicating
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Verb
experiencing
x/xxx
Verb
suffering
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Noun
blaming
/x
Verb
encountering
x/xx
Verb
damaging
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Adjective
distressing
x/x
Adjective
sapping
/x
Verb
inducing
x/x
Adjective
devouring
x/xx
Verb
addressing
x/x
Verb
annihilating
x/xxx
Verb
undermining
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Noun
alienating
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Verb
emanating
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Verb
exploiting
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Verb
impeding
x/x
Verb
banishing
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Verb
creeping
/x
Verb
combating
x/x
Verb
displacing
x/x
Verb
uniting
x/x
Verb
pestilence
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Noun
corrupting
x/x
Noun
depriving
x/x
Verb
targeting
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Verb
festering
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Adjective
wracking
/x
Noun
persisting
x/x
Verb
offing
/x
Noun
enslaving
x/x
Noun
bothering
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Verb
relating
x/x
Verb
attacking
x/x
Verb
poisoning
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Noun
ills
/
Noun
rampant
/x
Adjective
predisposing
xx/x
Adjective
riddled
/x
Verb
transforming
x/x
Noun
happening
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Verb
harrowing
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Noun
sore
/
Adjective
scourge
/
Noun
foreboding
x/x
Noun
most
/
Adjective
comforting
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Verb
politic
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Adjective
mankind
//
Noun
quieted
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Verb
abide
x/
Verb
absorbing
x/x
Adjective
abstruse
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Adjective
academicians
xxx/x
Noun
accrue
x/
Verb, Noun
accumulating
x/xxx
Verb, Noun
acrimony
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Noun
actresses
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Noun
adhering
x/x
Verb
admiring
x/x
Noun, Adjective
adoring
x/x
Adjective, Noun
alarming
x/x
Adjective
awful
/x
Adjective, Adverb
bashing
/x
Noun
boating
/x
Noun
bodily
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Noun, Adverb, Adjective
cheerful
/x
Adjective
criminal
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Adjective, Noun
deplorable
x/xx
Adjective, Noun
depressing
x/x
Adjective
deserving
x/x
Noun, Adjective
disheartening
x/xx
Adjective
dispiriting
x/xx
Adjective
dreadful
/x
Adjective, Adverb, Noun
facing
/x
Adjective, Noun
fraught
/
Adjective, Noun, Verb
gripping
/x
Adjective, Noun
hitting
/x
Noun
humiliating
x/xxx
Adjective, Noun
junkies
/x
Noun
knocking
/x
Noun
melancholy
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Noun, Adjective
mortifying
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Adjective, Noun
novel
/x
Noun, Adjective
painful
/x
Adjective
pleasing
/x
Noun, Adjective
prevailing
x/x
Adjective
raging
/x
Adjective, Noun
sad
/
Adjective, Verb, Noun
shocking
/x
Adjective, Noun
touching
/x
Adjective, Noun
traversing
x/x
Noun
unsettling
x/xx
Adjective, Noun
upsetting
x/x
Adjective, Noun
die
/
Verb, Noun
bulletproof
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Adjective, Verb
shirtless
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Adjective
fall
/
Verb, Noun