Change
Synonyms for afflict
The synonym for afflict recorded in this bank is smite, in the sense "cause physical pain or suffering in". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for afflict
- smiteverb, in the sense "cause physical pain or suffering in"
One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day afflict is audited in a second meaning.
cause physical pain or suffering in
Afflict with the plague.
The true synonym
smite
Same sentence, swapped: Smite with the plague.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for afflict in the sentence quoted.
- corrode
- deflower
- grind
Where afflict turns up in the game
afflict is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play afflict
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so afflict reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because change is the company afflict keeps.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. afflict carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.