afflicting

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Afflicting one in 50 people, OCD can take several forms, such as compulsively putting things in just the right order or checking if the stove is turned off 10 times in a row.

From Scientific American • Sep. 7, 2021

Afflicting the comfortable produces advertising cancellations as well as press-association awards; last year the paper lost $4,000 on a gross income of $51 ,000.

From Time Magazine Archive

Heaven is indeed sending down ruin, Afflicting us with famine, So that the people are all wandering fugitives.

From The Shih King From the Sacred Books of the East Volume 3 by Legge, James

Afflicting to us his family proved the end of his life, sorrowful to his friends; and even to foreigners and such as knew him not, matter of trouble and condolence.

From The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola by Gordon, Thomas

And though Punishment be due for Sinne onely, because by that word is understood Affliction for Sinne; yet the Right of Afflicting, is not alwayes derived from mens Sinne, but from Gods Power.

From Leviathan by Hobbes, Thomas