2. To inflict some great injury or hurt upon, causing
continued pain or mental distress; to trouble grievously;
to torment.
They did set over them taskmasters to afflict them
with their burdens. --Exod. i. 11.
That which was the worst now least afflicts me.
--Milton.
3. To make low or humble. [Obs.] --Spenser.
Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error before an
afflicted truth. --Jer. Taylor.
Syn: To trouble; grieve; pain; distress; harass; torment;
wound; hurt.