Afflict
English
Verb
Afflict (third-person singular simple present Afflicts, present participle Afflicting, simple past and past participle Afflicted)
- (transitive) To cause (someone) pain, suffering or distress.
Adverbs for Afflict
distressingly; suddenly; desperately; irremediably; bitterly; poignantly; sharply; undeservedly; recurringly; harshly; fatally; brutally; temporarily.
Thesaurus
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
