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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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

Dictionary Results for afflict:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

afflict
    v 1: cause great unhappiness for; distress; "she was afflicted
         by the death of her parents"
    2: cause physical pain or suffering in; "afflict with the
       plague" [syn: afflict, smite]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Afflict \Af*flict"\, p. p. & a. [L. afflictus, p. p.]
   Afflicted. [Obs.] --Becon.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Afflict \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.
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   2. To inflict some great injury or hurt upon, causing
      continued pain or mental distress; to trouble grievously;
      to torment.
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            They did set over them taskmasters to afflict them
            with their burdens.                   --Exod. i. 11.
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            That which was the worst now least afflicts me.
                                                  --Milton.
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   3. To make low or humble. [Obs.] --Spenser.
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            Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error before an
            afflicted truth.                      --Jer. Taylor.
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   Syn: To trouble; grieve; pain; distress; harass; torment;
        wound; hurt.
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