1. Cause great unhappiness for; distress
   "she was afflicted by the death of her parents" 
2. Cause physical pain or suffering in
   "afflict with the plague"
   - smite

Derived forms: afflicting, afflicts, afflicted

See also: affliction, afflictive

Type of: damage, discomfit, discompose, disconcert, untune, upset

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