Sample Sentences for
afflict
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    She has been afflicted with migraines since childhood.
    afflicted = made to suffer
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    Poverty and violence afflict many communities around the world.
    afflict = cause to suffer
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    While taking the test, she was afflicted with a toothache and a throbbing head.
    afflicted = made to suffer
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    I ask Dad what afflicted means and he says, "Sickness, son, and things that don't fit."  (source)
    afflicted = suffering; or made to suffer
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    "Jem's got the look-arounds," an affliction Calpurnia said all boys caught at his age.  (source)
    affliction = something that causes ongoing suffering
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    But the most terrible of the afflictions were men and women with leprosy.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tions", converts a verb into a plural noun that denotes results of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in actions, illustrations, and observations.
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    In fact, it was the same foot fungus that a hundred and ten years later would afflict the famous ballplayer Clyde Livingston.  (source)
    afflict = cause suffering for
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    Have you ever felt as if God were afflicting you?†  (source)
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    I said, I suffer from a rare condition that afflicts Mediterranean men.†  (source)
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    In plain fact, he had now become a millstone to me, not only useless as a necklace, but afflictive to bear.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ive" converts a word into an adjective; though over time, what was originally an adjective often comes to be used as a noun. The adjective pattern means tending to and is seen in words like attractive, impressive, and supportive. Examples of the noun include narrative, alternative, and detective.
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    This one massive miscarriage of justice had afflicted the whole community with despair and made it hard for me to be dispassionate.  (source)
    afflicted = stricken (caused to suffer)
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    "Pain demands to be felt," he said, which was a line from An Imperial Affliction.  (source)
    Affliction = something that causes ongoing suffering
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    I was fascinated with the miseries of women who had suffered and borne such afflictions.†  (source)
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