af'flictive
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afflict (əˈflɪkt) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —vb | |
| (tr) to cause suffering or unhappiness to; distress greatly | |
| [C14: from Latin afflictus, past participle of afflīgere to knock against, from flīgere to knock, to strike] | |
| af'flictive | |
| —adj | |
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Af'flictive
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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