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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Afflict \Af*flict"\, p. p. & a. [L. afflictus, p. p.] Afflicted. [Obs.] --Becon.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Afflict \Af*flict"\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Afflicted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Afflicting}.] [L. afflictus, p. p. of affigere to cast down, deject; ad + fligere to strike: cf. OF. aflit, afflict, p. p. Cf. {Flagellate}.]
1. To strike or cast down; to overthrow. [Obs.] ''Reassembling our afflicted powers.'' --Milton.
2. To inflict some great injury or hurt upon, causing continued pain or mental distress; to trouble grievously; to torment.
They did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. --Exod. i. 11.
That which was the worst now least afflicts me. --Milton.
3. To make low or humble. [Obs.] --Spenser.
Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error before an afflicted truth. --Jer. Taylor.
Syn: To trouble; grieve; pain; distress; harass; torment; wound; hurt.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
afflict
verb
1: cause great unhappiness for; distress; "she was afflicted by the death of her parents"
2: cause pain or suffering in; "afflict with the plague"; "That debasement of the verbal currency that afflicts terms used in advertisement" [syn: {smite}]
3: cause bodily suffering to [syn: {trouble}, {ail}, {pain}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
146 Moby Thesaurus words for "afflict": abuse, affect, aggrieve, agitate, agonize, ail, anguish, annoy, befoul, bewitch, bite, blight, bother, break down, bring to tears, burden, burn, chafe, condemn, convulse, corrupt, crucify, crush, curse, cut, cut up, damage, debilitate, defile, deprave, derange, desolate, despoil, destroy, devitalize, disable, disadvantage, discomfort, disorder, disquiet, disserve, distress, disturb, do a mischief, do evil, do ill, do wrong, do wrong by, doom, draw tears, embitter, enervate, enfeeble, envenom, excruciate, fester, fret, gall, get into trouble, give pain, gnaw, grate, grieve, grind, gripe, harass, harm, harrow, harry, hex, hospitalize, hurt, impair, incapacitate, indispose, infect, inflame, inflict pain, injure, inundate, invalid, irk, irritate, jinx, kill by inches, lacerate, lay up, load with care, maltreat, martyr, martyrize, menace, mistreat, molest, nip, oppress, outrage, overwhelm, pain, persecute, perturb, pester, pierce, pinch, plague, play havoc with, play hob with, poison, pollute, prejudice, press, prick, prolong the agony, prostrate, put to it, put to torture, rack, rankle, rasp, reduce, rub, savage, scathe, sicken, smite, sorrow, stab, sting, strike, taint, threaten, torment, torture, trouble, try, tweak, twist, upset, vex, violate, weaken, worry, wound, wreak havoc on, wring, wrong
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