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

To cause bodily discomfort or pain to (a person); to affect with pain or disease. Obsolete.

transitive. To strike, smite. Often with adverb complement describing the effect of the stroke, as to gird down, to gird off, to gird out, also to g…

transitive. To cause physical hurt or bodily pain to; to inflict physical suffering upon; to torment; to torture.

transitive. With to (and occasionally other prepositions). To cause to undergo or be subjected to a specified punishment, difficult circumstance…

transitive. To make sore, in various senses; to give (physical or mental) pain to; †to wound.

Of disease or ailment: to cause bodily derangement, pain, or inconvenience to; to afflict; sometimes in weakened sense, to affect. (Often in passive…

transitive. To afflict with physical pain or suffering; to hurt, to torture. Obsolete.

transitive. Esp. of disease, pain, etc.: to affect with physical discomfort, distress, or suffering; to afflict.

transitive. To cause pain or anguish to (a person); to pain, irritate. Also absol.

causative. To inflict pain upon. Obsolete exc. dialect.

Of a disease, pain, etc.: To torment, worry.

transitive. To affect (a part of the body) with a burning sensation; to burn, inflame. Now somewhat rare.

To tire out or fatigue greatly by long walking; to exhaust by over-exertion; figurative to distress. (Chiefly in past participle)