Synonyms of the word

afflict

• v. (transitive) To cause (someone) pain, suffering or distress.
• v. (obsolete) To strike or cast down; to overthrow.
• v. (obsolete) To make low or humble.

ail

• adj. (obsolete) Painful; troublesome.
• v. (transitive) To cause to suffer; to trouble, afflict. (Now chiefly in interrogative or indefinite constructions…
• v. (intransitive) To be ill; to suffer; to be troubled.
• n. An ailment; trouble; illness.
• n. The awn of barley or other types of corn.

damage

• n. Injury or harm; the condition or measure of something not being intact.
• n. (slang) Cost or expense.
• v. (transitive) To impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction.

discomfit

• v. (archaic) To defeat completely; to rout.
• v. To defeat the plans or hopes of; to frustrate.
• v. (proscribed) To embarrass greatly; to confuse; to perplex; to disconcert.
• adj. (obsolete) Discomfited; overthrown.

discompose

• v. (transitive) To destroy the composure of something.

disconcert

• v. (transitive) To upset the composure of.
• v. (transitive) To bring into confusion.
• v. (transitive) To frustrate, make go wrong.

hurt

• v. (intransitive) To be painful.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a creature) physical pain and/or injury.
• v. (transitive) To cause (somebody) emotional pain.
• v. (transitive) To undermine, impede, or damage.
• adj. Wounded, physically injured.
• adj. Pained.
• n. An emotional or psychological hurt (humiliation or bad experience).
• n. (archaic) A bodily injury causing pain; a wound or bruise.
• n. (archaic) injury; damage; detriment; harm.
• n. (heraldry) A roundel azure (blue circular spot).
• n. (engineering) A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.
• n. A husk.

pain

• n. (countable and uncountable) An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation,…
• n. (uncountable) The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure;…
• n. (countable) An annoying person or thing.
• n. (uncountable, obsolete) Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.
• n. Labour; effort; pains.
• v. (transitive) To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any…
• v. (transitive) To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.

smite

• v. (archaic) To hit, to strike.
• v. To strike down or kill with godly force.
• v. To injure with divine power.
• v. To put to rout in battle; to overthrow by war.
• v. To afflict; to chasten; to punish.
• v. (figuratively, now only in passive) To strike with love or infatuation.

trouble

• n. A distressing or dangerous situation.
• n. A difficulty, problem, condition, or action contributing to such a situation.
• n. A violent occurrence or event.
• n. Efforts taken or expended, typically beyond the normal required.
• n. A malfunction.
• n. Liability to punishment; conflict with authority.
• n. (mining) A fault or interruption in a stratum.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To disturb, stir up, agitate (a medium, especially water).
• v. (transitive) To mentally distress; to cause (someone) to be anxious or perplexed.
• v. (transitive) In weaker sense: to bother; to annoy, pester.
• v. (reflexive or intransitive) To take pains to do something.

untune

• v. (transitive) To make incapable of harmony, or of harmonious action; to put out of tune.

upset

• adj. (of a person) Angry, distressed, or unhappy.
• adj. (of a stomach or gastrointestinal tract, referred to as stomach) Feeling unwell, nauseated, or ready to…
• n. (uncountable) Disturbance or disruption.
• n. (countable, sports, politics) An unexpected victory of a competitor or candidate that was not favored…
• n. (automobile insurance) An overturn.
• n. An upset stomach.
• n. (mathematics) An upper set; a subset (X,≤) of a partially ordered set with the property that, if x is…
• v. (transitive) To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.
• v. (transitive) To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something).
• v. (transitive) To tip or overturn (something).
• v. (transitive) To defeat unexpectedly.
• v. (intransitive) To be upset or knocked over.
• v. (obsolete) To set up; to put upright.
• v. To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end.
• v. To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.