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That which occasions suffering; painful situation; misfortune; affliction; misery. Affliction's sons are brothers in distress. Burns.

Affliction; dreariness. [Obs.] Spenser.

A person afflicted with dyspepsia.

Impatience under affliction; morbid restlessness; dissatisfaction; the fidgets.

Pertaining to, or afflicted with, dysury.

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. I will no longer endure it. Shak. Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sake. 2 Tim. ii. 10. How can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people Esther…

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

The act of inflicting agonizing pain, or the state of being thus afflicted; that which excruciates; torture. Feltham.

e. "The bliss that fills up all the mind." Pope. "And fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ." Col. i. 24.

Torture by burning; severe trial or affliction.

of friends, misconduct of one's self or others, etc.; sorrow; sadness. The mother was so afflicted at the loss of a fine boy, . . . that she died for grief of it. Addison.

Grieving; grief; affliction. The . . . grievance of a mind unreasonably yoked. Milton.

Causing grief or sorrow; painful; afflictive; hard to bear; offensive; harmful. The famine was grievous in the land. Gen. xii. 10. The thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight. Gen. xxi 11.

Ridden by a hag or witch; hence, afflicted with nightmare. Beattie. Cheyne.

-- Under the harrow, subjected to actual torture with a toothed instrument, or to great affliction or oppression.

Afflicted with headache. [Colloq.]

Not easy to bear; burdensome; oppressive; hard to endure or accomplish; hence, grievous, afflictive; as, heavy yokes, expenses, undertakings, trials, news, etc. The hand of the Lord was heavy upon them of Ashdod. 1 Sam. v. 6. The king himself hath a heavy reckoning to make. Shak. Sent hither to impart the heavy news. W…

Total loss of reputation; public disgrace; dishonor; ignominy; indignity. The afflicted queen would not yield, and said she would not . . . submit to such infamy. Bp. Burnet.

To tear; to rend; to separate by tearing; to mangle; as, to lacerate the flesh. Hence: To afflict; to torture; as, to lacerate the heart.

Easy to be endured or performed; not severe; not difficult; as, a light affliction or task. Chaucer. Light sufferings give us leisure to complain. Dryden.