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afflict (verb)

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  • afflict — ► VERB ▪ cause pain or suffering to. DERIVATIVES affliction noun. ORIGIN Latin afflictare knock about, harass , or affligere knock down, weaken …   English terms dictionary

  • afflict — verb To cause (someone) pain, suffering or distress. Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses. But the more they afflicted them, the more they… …   Wiktionary

  • afflict — I verb agonize, anguish, assault, bruise, burden, chasten, discommode, discompose, disquiet, distress, grate, harm, hurt, impair, infect, inflict, irritate, mistreat, pain, plague, punish, rasp, sicken, smite, strike, victimize II index affront,… …   Law dictionary

  • afflict — verb ADVERB ▪ badly, severely PHRASES ▪ be afflicted with ▪ He s badly afflicted with a skin disorder. Afflict is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑disease, ↑ …   Collocations dictionary

  • afflict — verb (of a problem or illness) cause pain or suffering to. Origin ME: from L. afflictare knock about, harass , or afflict , affligere knock down, weaken …   English new terms dictionary

  • afflict — verb arthritis can afflict people of all ages Syn: trouble, burden, distress, cause suffering to, beset, harass, worry, oppress; torment, pester, plague, blight, bedevil, rack, smite, curse; archaic ail …   Thesaurus of popular words

  • afflict — verb (transitive often passive) formal to make someone suffer or experience serious problems: be afflicted with/by: a country afflicted by famine …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • afflict — verb Syn: trouble, burden, distress, beset, harass, worry, oppress, torment, plague …   Synonyms and antonyms dictionary

  • afflict — [14] When it originally entered English, afflict meant ‘overthrow’, reflecting its origins in Latin afflīgere ‘throw down’, a compound verb formed from the prefix ad ‘to’ and flīgere ‘strike’. English afflict comes either from the Latin past… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • afflict — [14] When it originally entered English, afflict meant ‘overthrow’, reflecting its origins in Latin afflīgere ‘throw down’, a compound verb formed from the prefix ad ‘to’ and flīgere ‘strike’. English afflict comes either from the Latin past… …   Word origins

  • afflict — transitive verb Etymology: Middle English, from Latin afflictus, past participle of affligere to cast down, from ad + fligere to strike more at profligate Date: 14th century 1. obsolete a. humble b. overthrow …   New Collegiate Dictionary

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