To weigh down; to burden; to oppress, grieve, distress.

transitive. To afflict with pain or suffering; to cause to suffer; to torment, trouble, distress. Also intransitive. Cf. pain, v. 2. Obsolete (Sc…

transitive. With animate subject: to cause trouble or harm to, to afflict. Obsolete.

transitive. To grieve, afflict, give pain to; to make painful or sore. Frequently in passive. Obsolete.

transitive. To pain, grieve, trouble, vex, afflict.

transitive. To give pain to, afflict; to make sorrowful; to grieve (a person).

to work (also †do) (a person) woe: to inflict distress or trouble on (a person); to afflict; to do harm to. Also without indirect object. Now archaic.

transitive. To distress or trouble (a person); to cause harm or offence to (a person). Also reflexive. Obsolete.

transitive. To cause (physical or mental) pain to; to hurt, sting, be painful to.

to work, bake, brew bale: to make mischief, prepare woe or misery.

transitive. To trouble, grieve, hurt, afflict, molest.

To affect with grief or deep sorrow. †Formerly, in wider sense: to vex, trouble, or oppress mentally; to cause pain, anxiety, or vexation to; to…

transitive. To affect (a person) in a specified way (hard, near, sore, etc.); esp. to distress, vex, or grieve (a person). Obsolete.

transitive. To afflict, grieve.

figurative. Said esp. of passion, remorse, etc. (cf. fret, v.1 3b). †Also, to carp at.

impersonal. To be distressing.

To put into a state of (mental) agitation or disquiet; to disturb, distress, grieve, perplex.

transitive. To bring grief or trouble to, to grieve, distress; to oppress, treat unfairly. Frequently in passive: to be injuriously affected, to…

Grief, affliction. to think sweam (impersonal with dative): to be grievous to. to be sweam: to be a pity. So for sweam!

transitive. To distress, trouble. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To afflict with mental pain or suffering; to torment, to trouble, to distress.

transitive. To cause grief or sorrow to; to grieve, distress. Also intransitive.

transitive. To affect (a person) with pain; to pain or grieve sorely. Usually with sore.

figurative. To hold in its grasp, as disease, sickness, love; to distress, oppress, afflict. Obsolete.

to trouble greatly, to afflict severly.

To press hard upon, afflict, distress. Obsolete.

transitive. To afflict, distress.

transitive. To distress with continued physical or mental suffering; to torment; to trouble. Also reflexive: to become or feel distressed; to grieve…

transitive. To inflict emotional or mental suffering upon, cause distress to; to grieve, hurt the feelings of, upset.

To constrain by force or infliction of suffering (to do a thing, into, out of something).

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

transitive. To make sore, in various senses; to give (physical or mental) pain to; †to wound.

transitive. To try with afflictions, to subject to ‘trials.’ Obsolete.

transitive. Of a thought, emotion, etc.: to afflict or fill (a person or a person's mind) with remorse or guilt.

transferred. To act upon as a ‘trial’ or severe test; to try with afflictions; to afflict sorely, distress. Cf. attempt, v. 4. Obsolete. rare.

to sit (or set) one sore (see sit, v. 21). Obsolete.

transitive. To disturb or upset (a person's mind, mental faculties, etc.). Now rare.

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

transitive. To burden, overwhelm, oppress, distress. Obsolete.

transitive. To affect with suffering; to afflict. Obsolete.

Ironically. To put into a (sore) plight, trouble, afflict.

To press hard upon, straiten, reduce to straits; to oppress, afflict, distress. Obsolete.

transitive. To grieve, distress, offend.

To try with afflictions. Obsolete.

Of a disease, pain, etc.: To torment, worry.

to wring to the worse: to vex, distress. Obsolete.

transitive. To subject (a person or animal) to toil, cause to work hard; to weary, tire, fatigue, esp. with work. Also: to trouble, pain (someone).

causative. To cause grief to, distress. Obsolete.

transitive. To cause grief or vexation to.

transitive. To poison, embitter, inflame (a feeling or person); to cause pain to. Now usually: to annoy persistently, irritate, rile.

To subject to a severe test or strain; to strain the endurance or patience of, put to straits, afflict.

figurative. To affect; to envelop or afflict; (of an expression, feeling, etc.) to appear briefly on (a person's face).

To throw into mental disorder or discomposure; to trouble or distress.

The exposed flesh. Chiefly in to touch (also get, catch, etc.) (a person) on the raw (figurative): to unsettle (a person) by alluding to or acting in…

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…

figurative. To strike heavily, as with a bludgeon. With in: to drive in as with a bludgeon.

intransitive. colloquial (originally U.S.). To have an overpowering negative effect upon the spirits or outlook of (a person); to worry, depress, or…

A circular ring, often with paper stretched over it, through which acrobats or performing animals leap. Also figurative, esp. in to go (also jump)…