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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Afflict \Af*flict"\, p. p. & a. [L. afflictus p. p.] Afflicted. [Obs.] --Becon. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: afflict v 1: cause great unhappiness for 2: cause pain or suffering in "afflict with the plague"; "That debasement of the verbal currency that afflicts terms used in advertisement" [syn: {smite}] 3: cause bodily suffering to [syn: {trouble}, {ail}, {pain}]
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