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Meanings of afflicted in English

Grievously affected especially by disease.

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Mentally or physically unfit.

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Examples for "stricken"
Examples for "stricken"
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Due to severe conditions, many North Korean children are stricken with it.
Somewhere inside
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Water levels are on the rise once more in the drought-stricken region.
The South African
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It is Chicago's South Side, where some neighborhoods are stricken with violence.
Reuters
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Soon the city was stricken by Britain's last great outbreak of plague.
The Guardian
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What we are noticing is that these stricken families need to talk.
Reuters
Usage of afflicted in English
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Results revealed 2 common mutations in afflicted family members; PDGFRA and HRAS.
Pubmed
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The authorities have launched an education campaign in afflicted areas, he said.
Reuters
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And we are to make use of it in comforting the afflicted.
Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians
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The fungus has been recovered sparsely despite plentiful availability of afflicted animals.
Pubmed
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But the sensation that afflicted her now was of a different order.
The rebels of ireland: the dublin saga
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Now Hazael, king of Syria, afflicted Israel all the days of Joachaz.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 1
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It extended to many places; but most of all it afflicted Milan.
The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch
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Northern Nigeria is increasingly afflicted by attacks and kidnappings by Islamist militants.
Reuters
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Northern Nigeria increasingly is afflicted by attacks and kidnappings by Islamist militants.
Reuters
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He reached his highest fame in the cure of his afflicted wife.
A Backward Glance at Eighty: Recollections & Comment
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The Greeks built combination temples and sanitaria, to which the afflicted resorted.
Maintaining Health (Formerly Health and Efficiency)
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The clergyman called to minister consolation to the afflicted widow and mother.
Our Nig; Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, in a Two-st...
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Even the infirmities and the decrepitude that afflicted could not deliver him.
Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Volume 0...
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The people fall again into idolatry and are afflicted by the Philistines.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete / The Challoner Revision
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Niryyatyamanani is distressed or afflicted in consequence of such birth and deaths.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 / Books 8,...
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This society was afflicted with the same evil as the first-named institution.
Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Volume 1
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Afflicted across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Common
United States of America
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