afflict
Example Sentences
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The team have worked at finding ways to prevent the vibrations from the engine leading to failures in the batteries in the engine's hybrid system, which afflicted them during pre-season testing.
From BBC
The West African country has long been afflicted by civil war, foreign military interventions, and Islamist insurgencies.
From BBC
He was probably afflicted by epilepsy, a condition that usually went unnamed to avoid public shame.
It makes for a wily and endearing tale, and in Adrian Nathan West’s excellent translation, the writing is remarkably untroubled by the stylistic sclerosis that can afflict writers with Vargas Llosa’s prestige.
What follows are the factors afflicting each region or market.
From MarketWatch
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
