Synonym: agitate, bother, disturb, perturb, trouble. Antonym: comfort, console, relieve, solace. Similar words: affliction, conflict, conflict with, baffle, baffled, afflatus, derelict, muffled. Meaning: [ə'flɪkt] 
v. 1. cause great unhappiness for; distress 2. cause pain or suffering in 3. cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed.
v. 1. cause great unhappiness for; distress 2. cause pain or suffering in 3. cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed. 31. Then she began to afflict him, and his strength left him.
32. High mortality rates still afflict children of the Third World.
33. Poverty and prejudice afflict Europe's Romanies particularly, but the underclass has other members too.
34. The biggest problems in children's medicine concern diseases that afflict the poor.
More similar words: affliction, conflict, conflict with, baffle, baffled, afflatus, derelict, muffled, effluent, flip, flirt, flight, flip out, flippant, profligacy, gaffe, afford, staff, affair, affect, afford to, affable, traffic, can afford, the cost of living, affinity, evict, affection, affordable, strict.