Synset

cause great unhappiness for; distress
<verb.emotion>

sample sentences

"she was afflicted by the death of her parents"

verb frames

Something ----s somebody
The bad news will %s him

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

afflictive affliction affliction

semantic pointers

hypernym

upset, discompose, untune, disconcert, discomfit

hyponym

grieve, aggrieve tribulate strain, try, stress