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Adjective afflicted has 2 senses

afflicted, stricken - grievously affected especially by disease
Antonym: well (indirect, via ill)
afflicted, impaired - mentally or physically unfit
Antonyms: fit, healthy (indirect, via unfit)

Verb afflict has 3 senses

afflict - cause great unhappiness for; distress; "she was afflicted by the death of her parents"
--₁ is one way to upset, discompose, untune, disconcert, discomfit

Derived forms: noun affliction₁, noun affliction₃
Sample sentence:
The bad news will afflict him
afflict, smite - cause pain or suffering in; "afflict with the plague"; "That debasement of the verbal currency that afflicts terms used in advertisement"
--₂ is one way to damage

Derived form: noun affliction₁
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
afflict, trouble, ail, pain - cause bodily suffering to
--₃ is one way to hurt

Derived form: noun affliction₂
Sample sentence:
Something ----s somebody