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afflict
 
Verb afflict has 3 senses
  1. afflict - cause great unhappiness for; distress; "she was afflicted by the death of her parents"
    --1 is one way to     upset, discompose, untune, disconcert, discomfit
    Derived forms: noun affliction1, noun affliction3
    Sample sentence:
    The bad news will afflict him
  2. afflict, smite - cause pain or suffering in; "afflict with the plague"; "That debasement of the verbal currency that afflicts terms used in advertisement"
    --2 is one way to damage
    Derived form: noun affliction1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
  3. afflict, trouble, ail, pain - cause bodily suffering to
    --3 is one way to hurt
    Derived form: noun affliction2
    Sample sentence:
    Something ----s somebody
afflable afflate afflatus affleck afflected affliate affliation afflication afflict afflicted afflicted afflictedness afflicting affliction afflictions afflictive afflicts

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