Converse of object

• endure: Our merit and progress consist not in many pleasures and comforts but rather in enduring great afflictions and sufferings.

• suffer: By late 1760 Mary was in Portsmouth suffering an affliction she had for most of her life.

• see: Expect to see some affliction on the angles of the chart.

• have: It is also a lesson to people who have an affliction.

• know: Every January groups of men and women, around 60 in all, become prone to a strange affliction known as square-eyed syndrome.

• bear: Do you feel in that state of mind that you could bear any affliction which might befall you, without repining?

Adjective modifier

• bodily: The prophets were not preserved from bodily afflictions in which category sorcery falls.

• terrible: For most of my life, I had this terrible affliction.

• sore: But that since he lost his books much too well, so God had sharply chastised him by this sore affliction ' .

• severe: During her later years, she was subject to severe unspecified domestic afflictions.

• mental: When we suffer from bodily pain there is bound to be mental affliction as well.

• common: In Britain, leprosy was a relatively common affliction in the early medieval period.

Noun used with modifier

• mine: I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction; 10:16 For it increaseth.

• skin: An oil obtained from the inner bark is astringent and is used in the treatment of various skin afflictions, especially eczema and psoriasis.

Preposition: of

• life: The afflictions of life are about what goes on inside.

• righteous: Many are the afflictions of the righteous, But the Lord delivers him out of them all.

• other: Walter Daniel also mentions the afflictions of others whom, he claims, were miraculously alleviated of their suffering by the venerable abbot.

• inequality: Wilkinson, R. , Unhealthy Societies: the afflictions of inequality, London, Routledge, ( 1996 ).

Preposition: with

• curse: The relation between affliction with curses or sorcery and the social-economic milieu in which they occur is also considered.

Preposition: by

• rod: The Lord is my Portion 'I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.