afflict
verb
[ əˈflɪkt ]
• (of a problem or illness) cause pain or trouble to; affect adversely.
• "his younger child was afflicted with a skin disease"
Similar:
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,
discommode,
ail,
Origin:
late 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’.
