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Meaning afflict meaning

What does afflict mean?

afflict

— verb cause physical pain or suffering in afflict with the plague — verb cause great unhappiness for; distress she was afflicted by the death of her parents

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distress torment trouble grieve worry hurt harass vex annoy smite pain oppress harry cause pain bother aggrieve sadden plague try torture pester beset tease strain rack press persecute molest inflict hassle harrow gripe give pain disturb curse cause pain to blight blackguard bedevil ail agonize affect weigh weary tyrannize over try out tribulate tire test tantalize

Topics afflict topics

What do people use afflict to talk about?
Person Healthy Symptom of disease

Pain

Conjugation afflict conjugation

How do you conjugate afflict?

afflict · verb

Examples afflict examples

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Movie subtitles

He writes that nobody can protect himself against the disease and that it will afflict all people in their fifties.
Mr. Brady, it's the duty of a newspaper to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
Your penitences and your sacrifices afflict me.
Its rulers shall afflict them. pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them. They shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth.
Never afflict yourself to know more of it, but let his disposition have that scope as dotage gives it.
Our sins afflict the trembling lamb.
But the apes suffer not in the slightest. from the ailments that afflict the civilized bowel.
This is the very ecstasy of love, whose violent property fordoes itself and leads the will to desperate undertakings as oft as any passion under heaven that does afflict our natures.
The data we gather from you may help us cure physical and psychological disorders that afflict millions.
To my mind, war is the greatest folly that can afflict mankind.
The Gerson Therapy is unequivocally the Holy Grail to curing cancer and maladies that now afflict most of mankind.
And when that time comes, afflict me with thy mocks.
For those of you who are new to camp, Pastor Phillips is somebody who has broken free of the bonds that afflict you.
And thus,I freed myself of the conflict that would afflict all the other good people in line.
Its rulers shall afflict them pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them.
Afflict the Montyons?
Your sentence does not afflict me. Bastard!
The disease, violence and bloodshed that afflict our youngsters, do not recognize sectarian boundaries.
Pastor Phillips is somebody who has broken free of the bonds that afflict you.
Whatever she might plan, the curse will not afflict us for long.
Award winning journalism. Comfort the afflicted, afflict the comfortable. Copy desk, are we over or under for the back of the book?
O coward conscience how dost thou afflict me!
Winston, let me tell you something, to my mind, war is the greatest folly that can afflict mankind.
Herpes can afflict even the hot dudes.
If Hadfield is found to be mad, then the nature of his lunacy may be said to be shared by others of a, ahem, nervous disposition that does afflict them.
Provoke what does afflict him!
What else could afflict so many?
No. Mr Segers decided to afflict pain on someone else instead.

News and current affairs

Because the poor have so little money to spend, drug companies, under current arrangements, have little incentive to do research on the diseases that afflict them.
Many of the most common psychiatric disorders that afflict humans are emotional disorders; many of these are related to the brain's fear system.
Moreover, where the private sector does play an essential role - vaccine development - it has little incentive to devote resources to diseases that afflict the poor or poor countries.
Many ailments that may afflict an economy are chronic, not acute, and thus call for other types of treatment.
There are at least three obvious flaws that afflict these big globalizers much more than the small globalizers who had done so well previously.
The COG conducts research across the spectrum of cancers that afflict children, and has approximately 100 clinical trials underway around the world.
For the problems of anomie, apathy, and political charade are not Polish problems, but maladies that increasingly afflict democracies everywhere, and that urgently call for a restoring of faith in parties and politics.
NEW YORK - As below-trend GDP growth and high unemployment continue to afflict most advanced economies, their central banks have resorted to increasingly unconventional monetary policy.

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