afflict
英[ə'flɪkt]
美[ə'flɪkt]
- vt. 折磨；使痛苦；使苦恼
英英释意
- 1. cause great unhappiness for; distress;
- "she was afflicted by the death of her parents"
- 2. cause pain or suffering in;
- "afflict with the plague"
- "That debasement of the verbal currency that afflicts terms used in advertisement"
- 3. cause bodily suffering to