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afflict /əˈflɪkt /verb [with object]1(Of a problem or illness) cause pain or trouble to; affect adversely: his younger child was afflicted with a skin disease serious ills afflict the industry (as plural noun the afflicted) he comforted the afflicted...- When we are afflicted with such illnesses, we expect to recover quickly and fully.
- This will remove the problems afflicting society, particularly those affecting the working class majority.
- Companies have made great advances in tackling health problems afflicting dancers, but those could be lost if proper practices are not maintained at all levels of the profession, he said.
Synonyms trouble, bother, burden, distress, cause trouble to, cause suffering to, beset, harass, worry, oppress, annoy, vex, irritate, exasperate, strain, stress, tax; torment, plague, blight, bedevil, pursue, rack, smite, curse, harrow, grip, visit, take rare discommode, ail 1.1 Astrology (Of a celestial body) be in a stressful aspect with (another celestial body or a point on the ecliptic): Jupiter is afflicted by Mars in opposition...- But if that path is afflicted, the astrologer can suggest alternatives.
- It is cadent from the Ascendant and afflicted by a square to Saturn.
- Saturn, the Greater Malefic and ruler of the 8th house, is stronger than the victim's significator, the Moon, and afflicts the 11 th house of hopes and dreams.
Derivativesafflictive /əˈflɪktɪv / adjective ( archaic) ...- And through fine moments of awareness, it is possible to not let afflictive emotions like anger evolve as a chain reaction that leads to the wish to harm.
- The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.
- And if they destroy your inner well-being and then also that of others, then we call them either negative, or afflictive, or obscuring, or destructive.
OriginLate Middle English (in the sense 'deject, humiliate'): from Latin afflictare 'knock about, harass', or from afflict- 'knocked down, weakened': both from the verb affligere, from ad- 'to' + fligere 'to strike, dash'. Rhymesaddict, conflict, constrict, contradict, convict, delict, depict, evict, hand-picked, inflict, interdict, Pict, predict, reconvict, strict |