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Rebuff vs Affliction - What's the difference?

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Rebuff is a related term of affliction.


As nouns the difference between rebuff and affliction

is that rebuff is a sudden resistance or refusal while affliction is a state of pain, suffering, distress or agony.

As a verb rebuff

is to refuse; to offer sudden or harsh resistance; to turn down or shut out.

rebuff

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A sudden resistance or refusal.
    • He was surprised by her quick rebuff to his proposal.
  • Repercussion, or beating back.
  • * Milton
    • the strong rebuff of some tumultuous cloud

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To refuse; to offer sudden or harsh resistance; to turn down or shut out.
  • To buff again.

    • Anagrams

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    affliction

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A state of pain, suffering, distress or agony.
  • Something which causes pain, suffering, distress or agony.
  • *1913 ,
  • *:She wore a man's long ulster (not as if it were an affliction , but as if it were very comfortable and belonged to her; carried it like a young soldier) [...]