afflict
Example Sentences
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Random abdominal pains have afflicted me since college — the price of a stressful job, I always figured.
From Los Angeles Times
Their bread-and-butter is comforting the most comfortable by afflicting the most afflicted.
From Los Angeles Times
I’d read in the newspapers about cholera, typhoid, and all sorts of other plagues that afflicted our city.
From Literature
Their case is helped by the crisis afflicting Dundee University and evidence that much of further education is heading deep into the red and facing possible closures.
From BBC
Louise, 15, is “afflicted by the plight of the middle child,” in that everyone ignores her even in the best of times.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
