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v. To inflict grievous physical or mental suffering on.

v. To cause (someone) pain, suffering or distress.

v. To strike or cast down; to overthrow.

v. To inflict some great injury or hurt upon, causing continued pain or mental distress; to trouble grievously; to torment.

v. To make low or humble.

past-participle. Afflicted.

To strike down; prostrate; overthrow; rout.

To distress with mental or bodily pain; trouble greatly or grievously; harass or torment: as, to be afflicted with the gout, or by persecution.

Synonyms Afflict, Distress, Trouble, Harass, Torment; try, pain, hurt, plague, persecute. Of these words, afflict implies the most spiritual effect, the greatest depth and continuance of sorrow. To distress is a more outward act, bringing one into straitness of circumstances or feeling, so that there is more anxiety for the future, while perhaps the afflicted person knows the full measure of his loss and is wholly occupied with the past. To trouble is a lighter act, involving perhaps confusion or uncertainty of mind, and especially embarrassment. Harass, as applied to mind or body, suggests the infliction of the weariness that comes from the continuance or repetition of trying experiences, so that there is not time for rest. Torment implies the infliction of acute pain, physical or mental, and is frequently used in the sense of harassing by frequent return. The use of afflicted otherwise than of persons severally or collectively is highly figurative or poetic: as, my afflicted fortunes; the other words have freer figurative use. See affliction.

Afflicted; distressed.

n. Conflict; struggle.

v. cause great unhappiness for; distress

v. cause physical pain or suffering in

"Sundry marplots, such as afflict all public bodies did, indeed, start to their feet, but a universal cry of ` ` question '' drowned all their efforts, and Mr. Raymond's motion was carried, to all appearance unanimously."

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trouble    oppress   

harass    trouble    hurt    pain    wound    torment    grieve    distress    afflicted    strike   

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