Afligido in english

Afflicted

pronunciation: əflɪktəd part of speech: adjective
In gestures

afligido = distressed ; ailing ; contrite ; bereft ; desolate ; disconsolate ; grieving ; heartbroken. 

Example: When at one stage of his journey Christian lost his roll, he was very distressed until he found it again.Example: John W. Gardner, when he was president of the Carnegie Corporation, said 'Most ailing organizations have developed a functional blindness to their own defects'.Example: The novel is about a contrite sinner who finds penitence through a 'cunning' that is theatrical.Example: I recalled how bereft we felt when we lost our son and how friends and neighbours rallied round and offered a shoulder to cry on.Example: The first option means fighting the resistance, brutalizing, barbarizing and dehumanising both ourselves and our victims, and resulting, at best, in a desolate and desocialized state.Example: The window was half-way open as he sat taking the air with an infinite sadness of mien, like some disconsolate prisoner.Example: His grieving wife, Carol, had an inkling that Paul was in ill health, as he was off-colour for quite some time.Example: She was extremely upset and heartbroken so we think she died of a broken heart.

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» afligido por la muerte de un familiar cercanobereaved .

Example: This paper discusses the ways in which books may be used to help bereaved children to understand death and other aspects of grief.

afligir = afflict ; ail ; desolate ; vex ; distress. 

Example: There will also be those who have in fact decided what information they need but are afflicted by the paralysis of 'unverbalised thought'.Example: The federal government has been once again defined as something broken and part of the problem ailing America.Example: You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs; you cannot destroy the practices of barbarism which for centuries have desolated Africa without the use of force.Example: But today few people facing death or vexed by poverty would imagine that they could find hope, assistance, or even simple comfort in a visit to an academic philosopher.Example: What distressed him most was his being so short; he did not mind so much his ' hideous' face, as being so short.

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» afligirsebecome + distressedgrieve .

Example: At least two publishers have themselves become so distressed at how their books are being mislabelled by LC subject cataloging through CIP that they're now printing their own homemade cataloging in publication data.

Example: If we take Cindi, Albert will almost surely grieve.

» problema + afligirproblem + afflict .

Example: Moveable compact shelving provides a successful permanent answer to the storage and preservation problems that afflict many libraries.

» sentirse afligidofeel + hurt .

Example: Managers feel hurt by employees disloyal to the goals of the organization.

Afligido synonyms

sick in spanish: enfermos, pronunciation: sɪk part of speech: adjective ill in spanish: enfermo, pronunciation: ɪl part of speech: adjective stricken in spanish: afligido, pronunciation: strɪkən part of speech: adjective impaired in spanish: dañado, pronunciation: ɪmperd part of speech: adjective unfit in spanish: impropio, pronunciation: ənfɪt part of speech: adjective
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