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Afflict :: Afflict (p. p. & a.) Afflicted.

Vexation :: Vexation (n.) The cause of trouble or disquiet; affliction.

Fire :: Fire (n.) Torture by burning; severe trial or affliction.

Hag-ridden :: Hag-ridden (a.) Ridden by a hag or witch; hence, afflicted with nightmare..

Stroke :: Stroke (v. t.) A sudden attack of disease; especially, a fatal attack; a severe disaster; any affliction or calamity, especially a sudden one; as, a stroke of apoplexy; the stroke of death..

Relieve :: Relieve (v. t.) To raise or remove, as anything which depresses, weighs down, or crushes; to render less burdensome or afflicting; to alleviate; to abate; to mitigate; to lessen; as, to relieve pain; to relieve the wants of the poor..

Heavy :: Heavy (superl.) Not easy to bear; burdensome; oppressive; hard to endure or accomplish; hence, grievous, afflictive; as, heavy yokes, expenses, undertakings, trials, news, etc..

Attempt :: Attempt (v. t.) To try to move, by entreaty, by afflictions, or by temptations; to tempt..

Daltonian :: Daltonian (n.) One afflicted with color blindness.

Accident :: Accident (n.) Literally, a befalling; an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation; an undesigned, sudden, and unexpected event; chance; contingency; often, an undesigned and unforeseen occurrence of an afflictive or unfortunate character; a casualty; a mishap; as, to die by an accident..

Trying :: Trying (a.) Adapted to try, or put to severe trial; severe; afflictive; as, a trying occasion or position..

Assay :: Assay (n.) Trial by danger or by affliction; adventure; risk; hardship; state of being tried.

Melancholy :: Melancholy (a.) Producing great evil and grief; causing dejection; calamitous; afflictive; as, a melancholy event..

Pain :: Pain (n.) To put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture; as, his dinner or his wound pained him; his stomach pained him..

Curse :: Curse (v. t.) The cause of great harm, evil, or misfortune; that which brings evil or severe affliction; torment..

Severe :: Severe (superl.) Sharp; afflictive; distressing; violent; extreme; as, severe pain, anguish, fortune; severe cold..

Trouble :: Trouble (v. t.) That which gives disturbance, annoyance, or vexation; that which afflicts..

Panacea :: Panacea (n.) A remedy for all diseases; a universal medicine; a cure-all; catholicon; hence, a relief or solace for affliction..

Rue :: Rue (v. t.) To cause to grieve; to afflict.

Wretched :: Wretched (a.) Very miserable; sunk in, or accompanied by, deep affliction or distress, as from want, anxiety, or grief; calamitous; woeful; very afflicting..

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