afligido

adj. stricken, afflicted; troubled; sorrowful

v. afflict, distress, trouble; ail

v. grieve, mourn; repine

adj. afflicted, distressed, stricken, tormented

v. chagrin, distress; oppress; grieve, sadden; fret

= distressed, ailing, contrite, bereft, desolate.
Ex: When at one stage of his journey Christian lost his roll, he was very distressed until he found it again.
Ex: John W. Gardner, when he was president of the Carnegie Corporation, said 'Most ailing organizations have developed a functional blindness to their own defects'.
Ex: The novel is about a contrite sinner who finds penitence through a 'cunning' that is theatrical.
Ex: I recalled how bereft we felt when we lost our son and how friends and neighbours rallied round and offered a shoulder to cry on.
Ex: The first option means fighting the resistance, brutalizing, barbarizing and dehumanising both ourselves and our victims, and resulting, at best, in a desolate and desocialized state.
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* afligido por la muerte de un familiar cercano = bereaved.

= afflict, ail, desolate.
Ex: There will also be those who have in fact decided what information they need but are afflicted by the paralysis of 'unverbalised thought'.
Ex: The federal government has been once again defined as something broken and part of the problem ailing America.
Ex: You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs; you cannot destroy the practices of barbarism which for centuries have desolated Africa without the use of force.
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* afligirse = become + distressed, grieve.
* problema + afligir = problem + afflict.
* sentirse afligido = feel + hurt.