afflict

be afflicted with a conscience

He is afflicted with severe rheumatics.

serious ills afflict the industry.

Famine and war still afflict mankind.

Pain racked his entire body.See Synonyms at afflict

A plague of locusts afflicted the land.

a disease that can afflict women past the menopause

Jupiter is afflicted by Mars in opposition.

a society afflicted by a deep cultural malaise.

He was afflicted always with a gnawing restlessness.

Only other sufferers know what it is like to be afflicted with this disease.

his younger child was afflicted with a skin disease.

They are always afflicted with the noise made by the passing planes.

The people of the afflicted areas are certain to need our help.

A terrible restlessness that was like to hunger afflicted Martin Eden.

They may grant you power,honour,and riches but afflict you with servitude,infamy,and poverty.

They were reading with enjoyment; yet their work was "afflicted from first to last with a fatal want of raciness."

In GermanAustria his fame was that of a saviour, and the mere mention of his name brought balm to the suffering and surcease of sorrow to the afflicted...

Malaria has been diagnosed on every continent, but sub-Saharan Africa is the region most afflicted.

A childhood stutter that had not afflicted him for twenty years started to return.

And Hugh burst into tears, now more really afflicted than he had ever been yet.

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All of them were afflicted with a feeling of sad helplessness.

“My granddaughter is afflicted by a crop of warts, sir, ” she told him.

The antiseizure drug levetiracetam appears to help some afflicted kitties.

In Africa alone, it afflicted 75,000 children annually.

They were much afflicted by the cold.

The verb, " afflict, " also means, " to cause harm to."