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

Sad :: Sad (supperl.) Affected with grief or unhappiness; cast down with affliction; downcast; gloomy; mournful.

Commiseration :: Commiseration (n.) The act of commiserating; sorrow for the wants, afflictions, or distresses of another; pity; compassion..

Night :: Night (n.) A state of affliction; adversity; as, a dreary night of sorrow..

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

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

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

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

Scourge :: Scourge (n.) To punish with severity; to chastise; to afflict, as for sins or faults, and with the purpose of correction..

Aggrieve :: Aggrieve (v. t.) To give pain or sorrow to; to afflict; hence, to oppress or injure in one's rights; to bear heavily upon; -- now commonly used in the passive TO be aggrieved..

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

Vexatious :: Vexatious (a.) Causing vexation; agitating; afflictive; annoying; as, a vexatious controversy; a vexatious neighbor..

Pearl-eyed :: Pearl-eyed (a.) Having a pearly speck in the eye; afflicted with the cataract.

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

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

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

Moan :: Moan (v. t.) To afflict; to distress.

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..

Vex :: Vex (v. t.) To make angry or annoyed by little provocations; to irritate; to plague; to torment; to harass; to afflict; to trouble; to tease.

Drearihood :: Drearihood (n.) Affliction; dreariness.

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