Afflict

1. p. p. & a. Afflicted.
2. v. t. To strike or cast down; to overthrow.
3. v. t. To inflict some great injury or hurt upon, causing continued pain or mental distress; to trouble grievously; to torment.
4. v. t. To make low or humble.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.