transitive. To overrun, ravage; to harry or worry excessively; to harass.

transitive. With animate subject: to cause trouble or harm to, to afflict. Obsolete.

transitive. To trouble, harass, afflict (a person). Also reflexive.

figurative. To encompass, surround, assail, possess detrimentally. said of temptations, dangers, difficulties, obstacles, evil influences.

transitive. To pain, grieve, trouble, vex, afflict.

transitive. To inflict suffering upon; to afflict, harass; to injure, harm.

to work (also †do) (a person) woe: to inflict distress or trouble on (a person); to afflict; to do harm to. Also without indirect object. Now archaic.

transitive. To trouble, grieve, hurt, afflict, molest.

Of persons: To harass, trouble, vex, gall by hostile action; to oppress; to do wrong, hurt, or harm to. Obsolete.

To harass (persons) by hostile attacks, forced exactions, or rapacity; to despoil.

transitive. To annoy, trouble, harass; to harm or injure. Occasionally in passive: to be annoyed or vexed.

transitive. To torment, distress, or harass (a person or animal); to afflict, trouble; to weary, tire. Chiefly in passive in later use. Now rare.

to work (also do) annoy and variants: to discomfort, trouble; to do damage or harm; to cause annoyance, irritation, or vexation. Frequently with a…

To afflict, harm, or injure; to bring to grief or disaster.

transitive. To bring grief or trouble to, to grieve, distress; to oppress, treat unfairly. Frequently in passive: to be injuriously affected, to…

transitive. To inflict pain, harm, or injury on (a person). Obsolete.

transitive. To bring tribulation upon; to distress, harass, afflict.

to†holdor keep waking; earlier, †to hold waken: To prevent from sleeping; to keep watchful or on the alert. †Formerly: To keep (a person, esp. an…

transitive. To afflict with mental pain or suffering; to torment, to trouble, to distress.

figurative. To hold in its grasp, as disease, sickness, love; to distress, oppress, afflict. Obsolete.

To envelop, entangle, or implicate (a person, etc.) in (†into), to surround, encompass, or beset with, some (esp. prejudicial) condition of…

To press hard upon, afflict, distress. Obsolete.

transitive. To make miserable, grieve, harass, vex.

transitive. To distress with continued physical or mental suffering; to torment; to trouble. Also reflexive: to become or feel distressed; to grieve…

To harass, distress, trouble. Obsolete (except with mixture of sense 4: to incommode, bother).

transitive. To try with afflictions, to subject to ‘trials.’ Obsolete.

transitive. To subject to severe strain or pressure (physical, financial, or other); to put to sore straits, to embarrass; now esp. to afflict or…

transferred. To act upon as a ‘trial’ or severe test; to try with afflictions; to afflict sorely, distress. Cf. attempt, v. 4. Obsolete. rare.

Of enemies, etc.: To press hardly upon, harass, give trouble to. Obsolete.

transitive. To burden, overwhelm, oppress, distress. Obsolete.

transitive. To cause misfortune to, to afflict; (Astrology) to cause (a planet) to have a malign influence. Usually in passive.

transitive. To subject (a person) to hardship, torment, or adversity; to afflict, burden. Also with a person's resources as object. Obsolete.

transitive. To do harm or hurt to; to injure; to molest, oppress.

Ironically. To put into a (sore) plight, trouble, afflict.

To press hard upon, straiten, reduce to straits; to oppress, afflict, distress. Obsolete.

To try with afflictions. Obsolete.

transitive. To trouble, distress; to inconvenience.

esp. To harass, vex, worry; to afflict, make anxious, ‘prove’.

to†holdor keep waking; earlier, †to hold waken: To prevent from sleeping; to keep watchful or on the alert. †Formerly: To keep (a person, esp. an…

To subject to a severe test or strain; to strain the endurance or patience of, put to straits, afflict.

to wring to the worse: to vex, distress. Obsolete.

figurative. transitive. Of cold, hunger, disease, etc.: to destroy, damage, or waste; to afflict (a person) with privation or hardship. Also: to…

transitive. = afflict, v. 1a.

transitive. To trouble, afflict, distress; to discomfit, harass. Obsolete.

transitive. To attack, make war against; to persecute. Occasionally of a disaster or misfortune: to afflict. Obsolete.

With inverted construction: To afflict, assail, trouble (a person) with something painful or disagreeable. (Now rare, and only in sense 1b.)

transitive. To harass; to oppress; to handle roughly.

To bring into straits, subject to hardship.

Hyperbolically or humorously. to make a martyr of: to subject to hardship or inconvenience; to sacrifice (someone) in a cause; to make a martyr of on…

To reduce to straits; to subject to privation, hardship, or distress. Often said of besiegers, sometimes with mixture of sense 4b.

transitive. To afflict; to oppress; to trouble greatly.

A circular ring, often with paper stretched over it, through which acrobats or performing animals leap. Also figurative, esp. in to go (also jump)…

transitive. To harass, to bedevil; to snub. (Only in P. G. Wodehouse.)