transitive. figurative. Of an immaterial thing: to pursue (a person) with hostility or enmity; (of misfortune, affliction, etc.) to harass, dog (a…

To afflict with evils or calamities: = curse, v. 5. Chiefly as past participle, also in waried worth (it, them, etc.) = may it, they, be afflicted.

intransitive. With upon, on (†of), in same sense as sense 11a. (With indirect passive.)

transitive. To bestow (something unpleasant) on; to inflict. rare.

To afflict or distress with sickness, poverty, or the like.

to lead (a person) the measures: to compel to participate in an unwanted course of action; = to lead (a person) a dance at lead, v.1 7. Obsolete.

figurative. To buffet with adversity. Obsolete.

to lead (a person) a dance: transferred and figurative, to put to the trouble of hurrying from place to place; hence, to compel to go through a…

transitive. To affect unduly in an adverse way.

With through. transitive. To cause (a person) to undergo or endure an ordeal, unpleasant experience, etc. See also to put (a person) through it at…

colloquial. to put (a person) through it: to impose a severe test on (a person); to subject to an ordeal or trying experience. Cf. to put through…