afflict

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verb

1. cause great unhappiness for;
distress
- she was afflicted by the death of her parents
• Derivationally related forms:
afflictive, affliction
• Hypernyms:
upset, discompose, untune, disconcert, discomfit
• Hyponyms:
grieve, aggrieve, tribulate, try, strain, stress
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s somebody
- The bad news will afflict him
2. cause physical pain or suffering in
- afflict with the plague
• Syn:
smite
• Derivationally related forms:
afflictive, affliction
• Hypernyms:
damage
• Hyponyms:
visit, blight, plague
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something