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Afflicted vs Conflicted - What's the difference?

afflicted | conflicted |

As verbs the difference between afflicted and conflicted

is that afflicted is (afflict) while conflicted is (conflict).

afflicted

English

Verb

(head)
  • (afflict)

  • afflict

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cause (someone) pain, suffering or distress.
  • * 1611 , 1:11–12:
  • Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict' them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses. But the more they ' afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.
  • * 1611 , 23:27:
  • Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
  • (obsolete) To strike or cast down; to overthrow.
  • * Milton
  • reassembling our afflicted powers
  • (obsolete) To make low or humble.
  • (Spenser)
  • * Jeremy Taylor
  • Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error before an afflicted truth.

    conflicted

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (conflict)
  • * '>citation
  • Anagrams

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    conflict

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A clash or disagreement, often violent, between two opposing groups or individuals.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author= Mark Tran
  • , volume=189, issue=6, page=1, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Denied an education by war , passage=One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools
  • An incompatibility, as of two things that cannot be simultaneously fulfilled.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To be at odds (with); to disagree or be incompatible
  • * '>citation
  • To overlap (with), as in a schedule.
  • Your conference call conflicts with my older one: please reschedule.

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