All 5 Uses of
afflict
in
Arrowsmith
- Bert Tozer, Albert R. Tozer, cashier and vice-president of the Wheatsylvania State Bank, auditor and vice-president of the Tozer Grain and Storage Company, treasurer and vice-president of the Star Creamery, was not in the least afflicted by the listening dubiousness of his parents.†
Chpt 9
- They stirred in Martin the most furious and complicated thoughts that had ever afflicted him.†
Chpt 21 *
- He estimated that according to Pickerbaugh's figures on bad teeth, careless motoring, tuberculosis, and seven other afflictions alone, every person in the city had a one hundred and eighty per cent chance of dying before the age of sixteen and he could not startle with much alarm when Pickerbaugh shouted, "Do you realize that the number of people who died from yaws in Pickens County, Mississippi, last year alone, was twenty-nine and that they might all have been saved, yes, sir, SAVED,…†
Chpt 21
- He was an M.B. of Edinburgh; he had served in the African bush; he had had black-water fever and cholera and most other reasonable afflictions; and he had come to St. Hubert only to recover his red blood corpuscles and to disturb the unhappy Inchcape Jones.†
Chpt 31
- In the badly afflicted districts, he might give the phage to everyone, and if the disease slackened unusually, that would be a secondary proof.†
Chpt 32
Definition:
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(afflict) cause suffering -- such as illness, pain, or unhappiness