Meaning of AFFLICT
| Pronunciation: | | u'flikt
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- [v] cause bodily suffering to
- [v] cause pain or suffering in; "afflict with the plague"; "That debasement of the verbal currency that afflicts terms used in advertisement"
- [v] cause great unhappiness for; distress; "she was afflicted by the death of her parents"
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| | Synonyms: | | ail, pain, smite, trouble |
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| | See Also: | | aggrieve, blight, break out, damage, disagree with, discomfit, discompose, disconcert, erupt, grieve, hurt, plague, recrudesce, strain, stress, tribulate, try, untune, upset, visit | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Af*flict"\, v. t. [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.
\Af*flict"\, p. p. & a. [L. afflictus, p. p.]
Afflicted. [Obs.] --Becon.
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