afflict
- sense 1: cause great unhappiness for; distress; "she was afflicted by the death of her parents"
- afflict
- upset discompose untune disconcert discomfit
- arouse elicit enkindle kindle evoke fire raise provoke
- sense 2: cause pain or suffering in; "afflict with the plague"; "That debasement of the verbal currency that afflicts terms used in advertisement"
- afflict smite
- sense 3: cause bodily suffering to
- afflict trouble ail pain