Afflict versus Inflict
The term afflict and inflict seems to be so much similar to each other that something people used them interchangeable and end up taking them synonym to each other.
Both the term have a good commonality of spelling between them making it more difficult to realize which one refers to what. In English language especially in grammar department it is very much important to know the exact meaning of each words so as to make our work more accurate and near to perfect.
In this article we will not only see the meaning of these two words but at the same time we will also try to accompany these terms in sentences as to have a deeper meaning.
Use of term affect and effect in sentence framing
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Important note
As we have seen above the meaning of the term afflict and inflict and we also had used them in sentences it is also important to know the difference between the two terms. “Inflict” is more specific and implies intentional harm or suffering caused by an agent, while “Afflict” is broader and can refer to a condition of suffering or hardship that may not necessarily be intentionally imposed. To remember the difference between two terms we can a simple trick.
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Term inflict and intentional both have alphabet “I” in this and hence they can be remember in this way I for inflict, I for Intentional.
After understanding the meaning and differences of both the terms it is important to know their correct pronunciation.
The term afflict is pronounced as uh flikt
The term inflict is pronounced as uhn flikt
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Summary
To summarize of what we have learnt in this article indeed both the term either be inflict and afflict is used as a verb and nearly means to cause harm in which inflict term is in narrow sense like to have an intentional harm where afflict is used is broader sense that is harm caused by disease etc and in last we also learnt a trick to remember the difference between the two as described in important note section.