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Meanings of afflict in English
Usage of afflict in English
1
In the US, water shortages afflict crop-growing areas and wildfires threaten cities.
2
These viruses are rarely lethal and often mildly afflict their natural hosts.
3
Then all the foremost heroes among the Parthas began to afflict Karna.
4
So we decided to afflict this star with one of those diseases.
5
The body they may afflict, but the mind is beyond their power.
6
Physical ailments are not the worst form of suffering that afflict humanity.
7
Better to serve Lucifer than the God who could so afflict me.
8
The Egyptians set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens.
9
Menchu said Cabral's murder was just one of many to afflict Guatemala.
10
He should afflict and obstruct them and seek to drain their treasury.
11
Do not afflict your countrymen: but let every one fear his God.
12
Thou hast prepared a table before me against them that afflict me.
13
The evils and sorrows that afflict mankind are of mankind's own making.
14
They goad and afflict a heedless man or one that is insensate.
15
Verily, we afflict those human beings who are given to such conduct.
16
Having obtained this prosperity, I hope, grief doth not afflict thee still.
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Afflict across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common