Afflict: alternatives and connections

To give pain or sorrow to; to afflict; hence, to oppress or injure in one's rights; to bear heavily upon; -- now commonly used in the passive TO be a…

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To affect with blight; to blast; to prevent the growth and fertility of.

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Alt. of Greeve

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That which smites, wounds, or troubles; a blow; a calamity; any afflictive evil or torment; a great trail or vexation.

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Race; stock; generation; descent; family.

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Distress.

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To divide or separate, as one sort from another; to winnow; to sift; to pick out; -- frequently followed by out; as, to try out the wild corn from th…

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To go or come to see, as for the purpose of friendship, business, curiosity, etc.; to attend; to call upon; as, the physician visits his patient.

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Injury or harm to person, property, or reputation; an inflicted loss of value; detriment; hurt; mischief.

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To scatter in fight; to put to rout; to defeat.

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To disarrange; to interfere with; to disturb; to disorder; to unsettle; to break up.

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To break up the harmonious progress of; to throw into disorder or confusion; as, the emperor disconcerted the plans of his enemy.

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To make incapable of harmony, or of harmonious action; to put out of tune.

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To set up; to put upright.

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The cause of continued pain of body or mind, as sickness, losses, etc.; an instance of grievous distress; a pain or grief.

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The cause of continued pain of body or mind, as sickness, losses, etc.; an instance of grievous distress; a pain or grief.

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Giving pain; causing continued or repeated pain or grief; distressing.

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Giving pain; causing continued or repeated pain or grief; distressing.

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To strike; to inflict a blow upon with the hand, or with any instrument held in the hand, or with a missile thrown by the hand; as, to smite with the…

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