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Definitions: Afflicted |
AfflictedAdjective1. Grievously affected especially by disease. 2. Mentally or physically unfit. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "afflicted" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Synonyms: AfflictedSynonyms: impaired (adj), stricken (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disease | Adjective: diseased; ailing; Verb: ill, ill of; taken ill, seized with; indisposed, unwell, sick, squeamish, poorly, seedy; affected with illness, afflicted with illness; laid up, confined, bedridden, invalided, in hospital, on the sick list; out of health, out of sorts; under the weather; valetudinary. |
Pain | Adjective: in pain, in a state of pain, full of pain; Noun: suffering; Verb: pained, afflicted, worried, displeased; aching, griped, sore; (physical pain); on the rack, in limbo; between hawk and buzzard. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | Mr. Brady, it is the duty of a newspaper to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. (Inherit the Wind; writing credit: Jerome Lawrence; Robert E. Lee) But at least I was never afflicted with that man's anger. (Affliction; writing credit: Paul Schrader) | |
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 | Domesticated animals afflicted with dumb rabies may become increasingly depressed, and try to hide in isolated places, while wild animals seem to lose their fear of human beings, often appearing unusually friendly.Credit: CDC. |  | ... the painful disfigurement of a child afflicted by yaws, the sorrow of a helpless mother. / WHO p.Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by Eric Schwab.. |
 | [View of hands afflicted with frostbite(?)].Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | [View of foot afflicted with frostbite(?)].Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Child afflicted with tuberculosis of the spine in cast on porch of his home near Warner, Oklahoma. Tenant farm family.Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
Charles Sumner | From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been ;abandoned. |
Jeremy Taylor | Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth. |
John Milton | And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend. |
Louis Marquis de Fontanes | Sire, the desire of perfection is the worst disease that ever afflicted the human mind. |
Zoroaster | Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He was moved and afflicted by it. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | He is there in the tabernacle burning with love for mankind, ready to comfort the afflicted. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Many disabilities are mild enough to allow those afflicted to eventually function independently in society. (references) | |
Recent discovery of families of dogs that are naturally afflicted with narcolepsy has been of great help in these studies. (references) | ||
Illness in afflicted individuals can result from intestinal inflammation and from side effects of the drugs used for the disease. (references) | ||
Children | El Salvador | The Ministry of Health estimated that 10 percent of the population is afflicted by some form of disability. (references) |
Economic History | China | Banking and finance are among the sectors most afflicted by corruption, as are government procurement and construction projects. (references) |
Indonesia | In 1968, the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) formally selected Soeharto to a full 5-year term as president, and he was re-elected to successive 5-year terms in 1973, 1978, 1983, 1988, 1993, and 1998. In mid-1997, Indonesia was afflicted by the Asian financial and economic crisis, accompanied by the worst drought in 50 years and falling prices for oil, gas, and other commodity exports. (references) | |
Political Economy | Nigeria | Chronic fuel shortages, which afflicted the country for several years, mostly have been alleviated by improvements in domestic refineries and partial deregulation of prices. (references) |
Turkey | Beginning in the early 1970's, and with a break only between the September 1980 coup and 1984 restoration of civilian rule, domestic terrorism has afflicted Turkish society. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | MUGWUMP, n. In politics one afflicted with self-respect and addicted to the vice of independence. A term of contempt. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
John Adams | 1797-1801 | I was for some time apprehensive that it would be necessary, on account of the contagious sickness which afflicted the city of Philadelphia, to convene the National Legislature at some other place. |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | The piracies by which our commerce in the neighborhood of the island of Cuba had been afflicted have been repressed and the confidence of our merchants in a great measure restored. |
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| "Afflicted" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 59.24% of the time. "Afflicted" is used about 211 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 59.24% | 125 | 28,650 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 23.22% | 49 | 48,677 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 17.06% | 36 | 57,479 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.47% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 211 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "afflicted". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Zair | N/A | Biblical | Afflicted |
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Expressions using "afflicted": afflicted with ♦ be afflicted ♦ be afflicted with. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "afflicted": dandruff-afflicted, drought-afflicted. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
afflicted but but crushed despair driven every in not not perplexed way we | 7 |
afflicted yard | 6 |
afflicted | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "afflicted"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaan | behep met (affected with, afflicted with, subject, subject to). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | që vuan (affected), i vrerosur (grieved, sad), i shkaktuar, i pikëlluar (distressed, distressful, dolorous, gaunt, glum, heartsick, mournful, rueful, sad, sorrowful, sorry, woeful, woesome). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | منكوب, معذب (agonized, murdered, suffering, tormented, tortured, torturer), مبتلي (stricken), حزين (cheerless, dejected, depressed, doleful, dolorous, downcast, drear, dreary, lamentable, lugubrious, melancholic, miserable, mournful, pathetic, plaintive, rueful, sad, sore, sorrowful, sorry, sullen, unhappy, wailful, weary, wistful, woeful), بائس (cheerless, deplorable, desolate, devil, disconsolate, distressed, forlorn, godforsaken, hapless, heel, helpless, lamentable, measly, miserable, paltry, pathetic, penurious, piteous, pitiful, poor, poverty stricken, ratty, sad, scruffy, seedy, sickly, sordid, squalid, unfortunate, unhappy, woeful, wretched). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | огорчен (aggrieved, embittered, pained, sore, wry), опечален (grieved, lugubrious, mourner, sad, sorrowful), измъчен (careworn, chivied, drawn, gaunt, haggard, jaded, labored, laboured, pinched). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 折磨 (Afflict, Afflicting, Racked). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | postižený (stricken). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | stoette til kraeftramte (support for the afflicted). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | patiënt die lijdt aan AIDS of pre-AIDS (patient afflicted with pre-AIDS), lýdend aan (affected with, afflicted with, subject to), behept met (affected with, afflicted with, subject to), begeleiding van zieken (support for the afflicted). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | suferanta pro (affected with, afflicted with, subject to). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kärsivä (suffering). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | affligé, accablé. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | leidenden (sufferers), behaftet (encumbered, tainted). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | βασανιζόμενος. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מעו " (den, habitation, lair, ortured, residence, stricken), ס'וף (affliction, mortification, suffering, torture), 'וע (contaminated, diseased, infected, plague stricken, stricken). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | sújtott. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | tormentò (distressed, toiled). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 病気に悩む (to be afflicted with illness, to suffer from illness), 煩う (to be afflicted with, to be concerned about, to suffer from, to worry about). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | わずらう (to be afflicted with, to be concerned about, to fall ill, to suffer from, to worry about). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 괴롭히" (Ailed, Annoyed, Badgered, bugged, Distressed, Plagued). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | lught yn teaghyn (the afflicted). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | afflicteday aflito (anxious, care-worn, concerned, desolate, distressful, fretful, sad, sorrowful, troubled, woeful, woesome, worried), aflitivo (distressing, land, mortise, painful). (various references) trãsnit (cracked, crackpot, dumbfounded, oddball, queer, thunder-struck), bolnav (ailing, bad, below the mark, deranged, diseased, ill, invalid, negativist, off the hinges, painful, patient, shaky, sick, suffering, unwell). (various references) огорченный (chagrined, disappointed, pained, sorry), пораженный болезнью (affected), пораженный (affected, smitten, staggering, stricken, wonder struck, wonder-stricken, wonder-struck). (various references) leòinte (grieved, hurt), cr idhteach (causing, grievous, miserable). (various references) unesrećen, pogođen nesrećom. (various references) afligido (aggrieved, bereaved, bleak, desolate, dismal, distressed, dreary, gaunt, miserable, mournful, pained, sad, somber, sorrowful, sorry, stricken, sullen, troubled), sufrido (forbearing, forbearingly, lenient, leniently, long-suffering, lost, taken). (various references) ansatt. (various references) uğramış (afflicted with, stricken), tutulmuş (afflicted with, engaged, hired, in love, lovestruck, reserved, smitten, smitten with, stiff, stricken, taken), sarsılmış (affected, all of a doodah, shaken, shocked), dertli (afflicted with, aggrieved, distressed, grief-stricken, heartbroken, plaintive, rueful, suffering, tearful, under a cloud, woebegone, woeful), üzgün (aggrieved, bleak, careworn, chagrined, crestfallen, dejected, downcast, downhearted, glum, heartsick, heartsore, heavy-hearted, low-spirited, pained, regretful, rueful, sad, sick at heart, sorrowful, sorry, stricken, tearful, troubled, unhappy, upset, worried). (various references) ynjamak (be afflicted, distressed). (various references) зтурбований. (various references) cystuddiol, cystuddiedig (contrite). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Date | Source | Luke Chapter 6, Verse 18 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai oi ocloumenoi upo pneumatwn akaqartwn kai eqerapeuonto |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Qui venerunt ut audirent eum et sanarentur a languoribus suis et qui vexabantur ab spiritibus inmundis curabantur |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | ða coman þæt hi hyne gehyrdon. and wæron of hyra adlum gehælede. and þa ðe wæron of unclænum gastum gedrehte wærun gehælede; |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | That camen to here hym, and to be heelid of her siknessis; and thei that weren trauelid of vncleene spiritis, weren heelid. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And they also that were vexed with foule spretes and they were healed. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And they that were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And they that were afflicted with unclean spirits: and they were healed. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And those who were troubled with unclean spirits were made well. |
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| Language | Luke Chapter 6, Verse 18 |
| Bulgarian | И като слезе заедно с тях, Той се спря на едно равно място; спряха се там и голямо множество от учениците Му и голяма навалица от люде от цяла Юдея и Ерусалим и от Тирското и Сидонското крайморие, които бяха дошли да "о чуят и да се изцелят от болестите си; |
| Cebuano | ug nangaayo ang mga gisakit sa mga mahugaw nga espiritu. |
| Chinese | 還 有 被 污 鬼 纏 磨 的 、 也 得 了 醫 治 。 |
| Croatian | nagrnuše da ga slušaju i da ozdrave od svojih bolesti. I ozdravljali su oni koje su muèili neèisti dusi. |
| Danish | som vare komne for at høre ham og helbredes for deres Sygdomme. Og de plagede bleve helbredte fra urene Ånder; |
| Dutch | Die gekomen waren, om Hem te horen, en om van hun ziekten genezen te worden, en die van onreine geesten gekweld waren; en zij werden genezen. |
| Finnish | Ja myös ne, jotka olivat saastaisten henkien vaivaamia, tulivat terveiksi. |
| French | Ceux qui étaient tourmentés par des esprits impurs étaient guéris. |
| German | die da gekommen waren, ihn zu hören und daß sie geheilt würden von ihren Seuchen; und die von unsauberen Geistern umgetrieben wurden, die wurden gesund. |
| Haitian Creole | Moun ki te gen move lespri ap toumante yo te geri tou. |
| Hungarian | És a kik tisztátalan lelkektõl gyötrettek, meggyógyulának. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Mereka datang untuk mendengar Yesus, dan untuk disembuhkan dari penyakit-penyakit mereka. Mereka yang kemasukan roh jahat datang juga dan disembuhkan. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | yang datang hendak mendengar Dia dan meminta sembuhkan penyakit mereka itu, dan orang yang dirasuk setan itu pun disembuhkan-Nya. |
| Italian | che erano venuti per ascoltarlo ed esser guariti dalle loro malattie; anche quelli che erano tormentati da spiriti immondi, venivano guariti. |
| Korean | " 러 운 귀 에 게 난 받 " 자 " 도 침 을 얻 은 지 라 |
| Latvian | Kas bija nâkuði, lai Viòu klausîtos un lai tiktu izdziedinâti no savâm kaitçm. Arî tie, kurus mocîja neðíîstie gari, tika izdziedinâti, |
| Manx Gaelic | As adsyn va seaghnit lesh spyrrydyn neu-ghlen; as v'ad er nyn lheihys. |
| Maori | Me te hunga ano e whakatoia ana e nga wairua poke: a whakaorangia ana ratou. |
| Modern Greek | και οι ενοχλουμενοι υπο πνευματων ακαθαρτων, και εθεραπευοντο. |
| Norwegian | som var kommet for å høre ham og for å bli lægt for sine sykdommer; og de som var plaget av urene ånder, blev helbredet. |
| Portuguese | e os que eram atormentados por espíritos imundos ficavam curados. |
| Rumanian | Cei chinuiyi de duhuri necurate, erau vindecayi. |
| Russian | ЛПФПТЩЕ ТЙЫМЙ ПУМХЫБФШ еЗП Й ЙУ"ЕМЙФШУС ПФ 'ПМЕЪОЕК УЧПЙИ, ФБЛЦЕ Й УФТБЦ"ХЭЙЕ ПФ ОЕЮЙУФЩИ "ХИПЧ; Й ЙУ"ЕМСМЙУШ. |
| Shuar | Iwianchrukusha Tsuámararmiayi. |
| Spanish | Los que eran atormentados por espíritus inmundos eran sanados, |
| Swahili | Aliwaponya pia wote waliokuwa wanasumbuliwa na pepo wachafu. |
| Swedish | Dessa hade kommit för att höra honom och för att bliva botade från sina sjukdomar. Och jämväl de som voro kvalda av orena andar blevo botade. |
| Thai | และบรร"าคนที่ต้องทนทุกข์เพราะผีโสโครก เขาก็ไ"้รับการรักษาให้หาย"้วย |
| Ukrainian | що посходилися, щоб послухати Його та вздоровитися із недугів своїх, також ті, хто від духів нечистих страждав, і вони вздоровлялися. |
| Uma | Patuju-ra tumai, doko' mpo'epe lolita Yesus pai' mpopepaka'uri'. To napesuai' seta tumai wo'o pai' napaka'uri' -ra. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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"Afflicted" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: affliated, afflitto, aflicted. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "afflicted" (pronounced ufli"ktud) |
| 7 | -f l i" k t u d | conflicted, inflicted. |
| 5 | -i" k t u d | addicted, constricted, contradicted, convicted, depicted, evicted, predicted, restricted, uncontradicted, unrestricted. |
| 4 | -k t u d | abducted, abstracted, acted, affected, attracted, collected, compacted, concocted, conducted, connected, constructed, contacted, contracted, corrected, counteracted, deducted, defected, deflected, dejected, destructed, detected, detracted, directed, disaffected, disconnected, disrespected, dissected, distracted, effected, ejected, elected, enacted, erected, exacted, expected, extracted, impacted, inducted, infected, inflected, injected, inspected, instructed, interacted, interconnected, interdicted, interjected, intersected, misdirected, neglected, objected, obstructed, overacted, overreacted, perfected, projected, protected, protracted, reacted, recollected, reconnected, reconstructed, redacted, redirected, reelected, reenacted, reflected, rejected, respected, resurrected, retracted, selected, subcontracted, subjected, subtracted, suspected, transacted, transected, unaffected, uncollected, unconnected, uncorrected, undetected, unelected, unexpected, uninfected, unobstructed, unprotected, unreconstructed, unsuspected. |
| 3 | -t u d | abated, abbreviated, abdicated, abetted, aborted, abrogated, abutted, accelerated, accented, accentuated, accepted, acclimated, accommodated, accosted, accounted, accredited, accumulated, acquainted, acquitted, activated, adapted, adjudicated, adjusted, admitted, adopted, adulterated, advocated, affiliated, affronted, aggravated, aggregated, agitated, airlifted, alerted, alienated, alleviated, allocated, allotted, alternated, amalgamated, ameliorated, amounted, amputated, angulated, animated, annihilated, annotated, anted, anticipated, antiquated, appointed, appreciated, appropriated, approximated, arbitrated, arrested, articulated, aspirated, assassinated, assaulted, asserted, assimilated, assisted, associated, assorted, attempted, attenuated, attested, attributed, audited, augmented, authenticated, automated, averted, awaited, backdated, baited, bankrupted, bated, batted, belated, belted, benefited, benefitted, benighted, berated, bested, bifurcated, bigoted, blacklisted, blanketed, blasted, blighted, bloated, blunted, blurted, boasted, boated, bolted, boosted, booted, boycotted, breasted, budgeted, busted, caffeinated, calculated, calibrated, capitulated, captivated, carbonated, carbureted, carotid, carpeted, carted, castigated, castrated, catapulted, celebrated, cemented, chanted, charted, chatted, cheated, chested, chlorinated, circuited, circulated, circumvented, cited, closeted, clotted, coasted, coated, coexisted, collaborated, comforted, commemorated, commented, committed, communicated, commuted, compensated, competed, complemented, completed, complicated, complimented, computed, conceited, concentrated, concerted, confiscated, confronted, congested, congratulated, congregated, conjugated, conscripted, consecrated, consented, consisted, consolidated, constipated, constituted, consulted, consummated, contaminated, contemplated, contented, contested, contorted, contrasted, contributed, converted, convoluted, cooperated, coordinated, copyrighted, correlated, corroborated, corrugated, corrupted, costed, counted, counterfeited, courted, coveted, crafted, created, credited, cremated, crenelated, crested, crusted, culminated, cultivated, darted, dated, daunted, deactivated, debated, debilitated, decaffeinated, decapitated, decelerated, decimated, decontaminated, decorated, dedicated, defaulted, defeated, deflated, degenerated, dehydrated, delegated, deleted, deliberated, delighted, delineated, delisted, demented, demonstrated, demoted, denigrated, denominated, denoted, dented, departed, depleted, deported, deposited, depreciated, deregulated, desecrated, desegregated, deserted, designated, deteriorated, detested, detonated, devaluated, devastated, deviated, devoted, dictated, differentiated, digested, dilapidated, dilated, diluted, disappointed, disassociated, discontented, discounted, discredited, discriminated, disenchanted, disgusted, disintegrated, disinterested, disinvited, disjointed, dislocated, disoriented, dispirited, disputed, disrupted, disseminated, dissented, dissipated, distorted, distributed, distrusted, diverted, divested, documented, domesticated, dominated, donated, dotted, doubted, drafted, drifted, duplicated, dusted, edited, educated, elaborated, elated, electrocuted, elevated, elicited, eliminated, elongated, elucidated, emaciated, emanated, emancipated, emasculated, emigrated, emitted, emulated, encapsulated, enchanted, encrusted, encrypted, enlisted, entrusted, enumerated, enunciated, equated, eradicated, erupted, escalated, escorted, estimated, evacuated, evaluated, evaporated, eviscerated, exacerbated, exaggerated, exalted, exasperated, excavated, excepted, excerpted, excited, excommunicated, excoriated, executed, exempted, exerted, exhausted, exhibited, exhilarated, exhorted, existed, exited, exonerated, expedited, experimented, exploited, exported, expropriated, exterminated, extorted, extradited, extrapolated, extricated, extroverted, exulted, fabricated, faceted, facilitated, fainted, fainthearted, farsighted, fascinated, fasted, fated, faulted, feasted, federated, fermented, ferreted, feted, fetid, filleted, fingerprinted, fisted, fitted, fixated, flabbergasted, flagellated, flaunted, flirted, floated, flouted, fluctuated, foisted, fomented, footed, footnoted, forecasted, forested, forfeited, formulated, fragmented, frequented, fretted, fronted, frosted, frustrated, gated, generated, germinated, gifted, glaciated, gloated, glutted, graduated, grafted, granted, grated, gravitated, greeted, grunted, guested, gusted, gutted, gyrated, halfhearted, hallucinated, halogenated, halted, handcrafted, harvested, hated, hearted, heated, helmeted, hesitated, highlighted, hinted, hoisted, hooted, hosted, humiliated, hunted, hydrated, hydrogenated, hyphenated, ignited, illuminated, illustrated, imitated, immigrated, imparted, impersonated, implanted, implemented, implicated, imported, impregnated, imprinted, imputed, inactivated, inaugurated, incapacitated, incarcerated, incinerated, incited, incorporated, inculcated, indebted, indicated, indicted, indited, indoctrinated, infatuated, infested, infiltrated, inflated, infuriated, ingested, inhabited, inherited, inhibited, initiated, innovated, inoculated, inserted, insinuated, insisted, instigated, instituted, insulated, insulted, integrated, intercepted, interested, interpolated, interpreted, interrelated, interrogated, interrupted, intimated, intimidated, intoxicated, introverted, inundated, invalidated, invented, inverted, invested, investigated, invigorated, invited, irradiated, irrigated, irritated, isolated, jacketed, jetted, jilted, jointed, jolted, jotted, knighted, knitted, knotted, lambasted, lamented, laminated, lasted, legislated, levitated, liberated, lifted, lighted, lighthearted, limited, liquidated, listed, litigated, located, looted, lubricated, lusted, maladjusted, malted, maltreated, mandated, manifested, manipulated, marinated, marketed, masted, masturbated, mated, mediated, medicated, melted, merited, meted, migrated, minted, misallocated, misappropriated, miscalculated, misinterpreted, misquoted, misreported, misrepresented, misstated, mistreated, mistrusted, mitigated, moderated, modulated, molested, motivated, mounted, multifaceted, mutated, muted, mutilated, narrated, nauseated, navigated, nearsighted, necessitated, negated, negotiated, nested, netted, nominated, nonregulated, noted, obligated, obliterated, officiated, omitted, operated, opinionated, opted, orbited, orchestrated, orientated, oriented, originated, ornamented, ousted, outdated, outed, outfitted, outlasted, outvoted, overestimated, overexcited, overheated, overpopulated, overrated, overregulated, overrepresented, overstated, overweighted, oxygenated, painted, panted, parachuted, parted, participated, pasted, patented, patted, pelleted, pelted, penetrated, perforated, permeated, permitted, perpetrated, perpetuated, persecuted, persisted, perverted, petted, picketed, piloted, pinpointed, pirated, pitted, pivoted, planted, plated, plotted, plummeted, pocketed, pointed, pollinated, polluted, pontificated, populated, ported, posited, posted, potted, pouted, precipitated, predated, predicated, predominated, preempted, preexisted, prefabricated, premeditated, presented, prevented, printed, profited, prognosticated, prohibited, proliferated, promoted, prompted, promulgated, propagated, prorated, prosecuted, protested, punctuated, purported, putted, quieted, quilted, quoted, radiated, rafted, ranted, ratcheted, rated, reactivated, readjusted, readmitted, reallocated, reappointed, rearrested, reasserted, rebated, rebutted, recalculated, recanted, reciprocated, recited, reconstituted, recounted, recreated, recruited, redecorated, redistributed, redrafted, reevaluated, refitted, reformulated, refrigerated, refuted, regenerated, regimented, regretted, regulated, rehabilitated, reignited, reincarnated, reinstated, reinstituted, reintegrated, reinterpreted, reinvented, reinvested, reinvigorated, reinvited, reiterated, rejuvenated, related, relegated, relented, relocated, remarketed, remitted, renegotiated, renominated, renovated, rented, repainted, repatriated, repeated, repented, replanted, replicated, reported, represented, reprinted, repudiated, reputed, requested, rerouted, resented, resisted, resonated, resorted, restarted, restated, rested, resubmitted, resulted, resuscitated, retaliated, retested, retorted, retreated, retrofitted, reunited, reverberated, reverted, revisited, revolted, righted, rioted, riveted, roasted, rocketed, roosted, rooted, rotated, rotted, ruminated, rusted, rutted, sainted, salivated, salted, saluted, sandblasted, sated, saturated, scapegoated, scented, scouted, scripted, sculpted, seated, secreted, sedated, segmented, segregated, separated, serrated, shafted, shifted, shorted, shortsighted, shouted, shunted, sifted, sighted, silhouetted, simulated, sited, situated, skated, skirted, skyrocketed, slanted, slated, slighted, slotted, snorted, solicited, sophisticated, sorted, speculated, spirited, sported, spotlighted, spotted, spouted, sprinted, sprouted, spurted, squirted, stagnated, stalemated, started, stated, stilted, stimulated, stipulated, stunted, subjugated, submitted, subordinated, substantiated, substituted, subverted, suffocated, suggested, suited, superheated, supplanted, supplemented, supported, surmounted, swatted, sweated, syncopated, syndicated, tabulated, tainted, talented, targeted, tasted, taunted, tempted, terminated, tested, throated, thwarted, ticketed, tightfisted, tilted, tinted, titillated, toasted, tolerated, tormented, toted, touted, translated, transmitted, transplanted, transported, treated, trotted, trumpeted, truncated, trusted, tufted, twisted, unabated, unaccounted, unaccredited, unadjusted, unadulterated, unaffiliated, unallocated, unanticipated, unappreciated, unassisted, unaudited, unbolted, uncharted, uncoated, uncommitted, uncompensated, uncompleted, uncomplicated, unconsolidated, uncontaminated, uncontested, unconverted, uncoordinated, uncorroborated, uncounted, undated, undaunted, undefeated, undercounted, underestimated, underrated, underreported, underrepresented, understated, undifferentiated, undiluted, undisputed, undistributed, undocumented, undoubted, unedited, uneducated, unexploited, unincorporated, unindicted, uninhabited, uninhibited, uninitiated, uninterested, uninterrupted, uninvited, United, unlimited, unlisted, unmitigated, unmolested, unpainted, unprecedented, unrated, unregulated, unrelated, unreported, unrepresented, unrequited, unsaturated, unscripted, unseated, unsolicited, unsophisticated, unstated, unsubstantiated, unsuited, unsupported, untainted, untested, untreated, unwanted, unwarranted, updated, uplifted, uprooted, vacated, vaccinated, vacillated, validated, vatted, vaulted, vaunted, venerated, vented, ventilated, vested, vetted, vindicated, violated, visited, voted, wafted, waited, wanted, warranted, wasted, weighted, whetted, whited, wholehearted, wilted, witted, worsted, wrested. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-f-f-i-l-t" | |
-1 letter: facelift. | |
-2 letters: afflict, citadel, deltaic, dialect, edictal. | |
-3 letters: affect, afield, atelic, delict, deltic, detail, dilate, facile, failed, fecial, fetial, flited, lifted, tailed, talced, tiffed. | |
-4 letters: acted, ailed, alcid, cadet, calif, cited, clade, cleat, cleft, cliff, clift, dealt, decaf, decal, defat, delft, delta, dicta, eclat, edict, faced, facet, fated, fecal, felid, fetal, fetid, field, fifed, filed, filet, flied, flite, ideal, ileac, laced, lated, telia, telic, tical, tidal, tilde, tiled. | |
-5 letters: aced, acid, adit, aide, alec, alef, alif, alit, cade, cadi, cafe, caff, caid, calf, cate, cedi, ceil, celt, cite, clad, clef, clit, dace, daff, daft, dale, date, deaf, deal, defi, deft, deil, delf, deli, delt, dial, dice, diel, diet, dita, dite, edit, etic, face, fact, fade, fail, fate, feal, feat, felt, feta, fiat, fice, fief, fife, fila, file, flat, flea, fled, flic, flit, iced, idea, idle, ilea, lace, lade, laic, laid, late, lati, lead, leaf, left, lice, lied, lief, life, lift, lite, tace, tael, tail, talc, tale, tali, teal, teff, tela, tide, tied, tiff, tile. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-f-f-i-l-t" | |
+1 letter: facelifted. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 66 66 6C 69 63 74 65 64 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- ..-. ..-. .-.. .. -.-. - . -.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100110 01100110 01101100 01101001 01100011 01110100 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A f f l i c t e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0066 0066 006C 0069 0063 0074 0065 0064 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)357272787569867170 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Familiar 8. Quotations: Fiction | 9. Quotations: Non-fiction 10. Quotations: Speeches 11. Usage Frequency 12. Names: Derived from | 13. Expressions 14. Expressions: Internet 15. Translations: Modern 16. Bible Trace | 17. Derivations 18. Rhymes 19. Anagrams 20. Orthography | 21. Bibliography |
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