AFFLICT
Dictionary entry overview: What does afflict mean?
• AFFLICT (verb)
The verb AFFLICT has 3 senses:
1. cause great unhappiness for; distress
2. cause pain or suffering in
3. cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed
Familiarity information: AFFLICT used as a verb is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• AFFLICT (verb)
Meaning:
Cause great unhappiness for; distress
Classified under:
Verbs of feeling
Context example:
she was afflicted by the death of her parents
Hypernyms (to "afflict" is one way to...):
discomfit; discompose; disconcert; untune; upset (cause to lose one's composure)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "afflict"):
aggrieve; grieve (cause to feel sorrow)
tribulate (oppress or trouble greatly)
strain; stress; try (test the limits of)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s somebody
Sentence example:
The bad news will afflict him
Meaning:
Cause pain or suffering in
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
afflict; smite
Context examples:
afflict with the plague / That debasement of the verbal currency that afflicts terms used in advertisement
Hypernyms (to "afflict" is one way to...):
damage (inflict damage upon)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "afflict"):
visit (assail)
blight; plague (cause to suffer a blight)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Synonyms:
pain; ail; afflict; trouble
Hypernyms (to "afflict" is one way to...):
hurt (give trouble or pain to)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "afflict"):
disagree with (not be very easily digestible)
break out; erupt; recrudesce (become raw or open)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s somebody
