Contextualizebeta

afflict

verb
/əˈflɪkt/

Etymology

From Middle English afflicten (attested in past participle afflicte), from Latin afflictāre (“to damage, harass, torment”), frequentative of affligere (“to dash down, overthrow”). See also af-.

  1. derived from afflictāre — “to damage, harass, torment”
  2. inherited from afflicten

Definitions

  1. To cause (someone) pain, suffering or distress.

    • Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord.
    • [T]he wench was afflicted with religion and unapproachably austere.

  2. To strike or cast down

    To strike or cast down; to overthrow; to result.

    • reassembling our afflicted powers

  3. To make low or humble.

    • The Argument of mine afflicted stile
    • Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error before an afflicted truth.

The neighborhood

Derived

afflictee, afflicter, afflictingly, reafflict, unafflicting

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at afflict. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01afflict02cast03cross-cast04ensure05future06goodness07god08superior09painful10afflicted

A definitional loop anchored at afflict. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at afflict

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA