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Afflictive :: Afflictive (a.) Giving pain; causing continued or repeated pain or grief; distressing.

Worm :: Worm (n.) An internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one's mind with remorse.

Pressure :: Pressure (n.) Affliction; distress; grievance.

Scourge :: Scourge (n.) To harass or afflict severely.

Sore :: Sore (superl.) Severe; afflictive; distressing; as, a sore disease; sore evil or calamity..

Mitigation :: Mitigation (n.) The act of mitigating, or the state of being mitigated; abatement or diminution of anything painful, harsh, severe, afflictive, or calamitous; as, the mitigation of pain, grief, rigor, severity, punishment, or penalty..

Distrain :: Distrain (v. t.) To press heavily upon; to bear down upon with violence; hence, to constrain or compel; to bind; to distress, torment, or afflict..

Stroke :: Stroke (v. t.) The result of effect of a striking; injury or affliction; soreness.

Rickets :: Rickets (n. pl.) A disease which affects children, and which is characterized by a bulky head, crooked spine and limbs, depressed ribs, enlarged and spongy articular epiphyses, tumid abdomen, and short stature, together with clear and often premature mental faculties. The essential cause of the disease appears to be the nondeposition of earthy salts in the osteoid tissues. Children afflicted with this malady stand and walk unsteadily. Called also rachitis..

Grievous :: Grievous (a.) Causing grief or sorrow; painful; afflictive; hard to bear; offensive; harmful.

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..

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..

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

Sore :: Sore (a.) Fig.: Grief; affliction; trouble; difficulty.

Light :: Light (superl.) Easy to be endured or performed; not severe; not difficult; as, a light affliction or task..

Grievous :: Grievous (a.) Full of, or expressing, grief; showing great sorrow or affliction; as, a grievous cry..

Oversorrow :: Oversorrow (v. t.) To grieve or afflict to excess.

Plague :: Plague (v. t.) To infest or afflict with disease, calamity, or natural evil of any kind..

Endure :: Endure (v. t.) To bear with patience; to suffer without opposition or without sinking under the pressure or affliction; to bear up under; to put up with; to tolerate.

Afflictionless :: Afflictionless (a.) Free from affliction.

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