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

Grievance :: Grievance (v. t.) Grieving; grief; affliction.

Dejected :: Dejected (a.) Cast down; afflicted; low-spirited; sad; as, a dejected look or countenance..

Enzootic :: Enzootic (a.) Afflicting animals; -- used of a disease affecting the animals of a district. It corresponds to an endemic disease among men.

Distress :: Distress (n.) That which occasions suffering; painful situation; misfortune; affliction; misery.

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..

Afflict :: Afflict (v. t.) To strike or cast down; to overthrow.

Punish :: Punish (v. t.) To impose a penalty upon; to afflict with pain, loss, or suffering for a crime or fault, either with or without a view to the offender's amendment; to cause to suffer in retribution; to chasten; as, to punish traitors with death; a father punishes his child for willful disobedience..

Carney :: Carney (n.) A disease of horses, in which the mouth is so furred that the afflicted animal can not eat..

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

Grieve :: Grieve (v. t.) To occasion grief to; to wound the sensibilities of; to make sorrowful; to cause to suffer; to afflict; to hurt; to try.

Curse :: Curse (v. t.) To bring great evil upon; to be the cause of serious harm or unhappiness to; to furnish with that which will be a cause of deep trouble; to afflict or injure grievously; to harass or torment.

Lighten :: Lighten (v. t.) To make less burdensome or afflictive; to alleviate; as, to lighten the cares of life or the burden of grief..

Smite :: Smite (v. t.) To afflict; to chasten; to punish.

Podagrical :: Podagrical (a.) Afflicted with gout.

Sour :: Sour (superl.) Afflictive; painful.

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..

Disease :: Disease (v. t.) To derange the vital functions of; to afflict with disease or sickness; to disorder; -- used almost exclusively in the participle diseased.

Dysphoria :: Dysphoria (n.) Impatience under affliction; morbid restlessness; dissatisfaction; the fidgets.

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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