- afflicted, stricken - grievously affected especially by disease
Antonym: well (indirect, via ill)
- afflicted, impaired - mentally or physically unfit
Antonyms: fit, healthy (indirect, via unfit)
- 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
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun affliction1, noun affliction3
The bad news will afflict him
- 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
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun affliction1
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- afflict, trouble, ail, pain - cause bodily suffering to
--3 is one way to hurt
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun affliction2
Something ----s somebody