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  • She has been afflicted with migraines since childhood.
    afflicted = made to suffer
  • Poverty and violence afflict many communities around the world.
    afflict = cause to suffer
  • 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
  • "Pain demands to be felt," he said, which was a line from An Imperial Affliction.  (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.
  • 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
  • But the most terrible of the afflictions were men and women with leprosy.†  (source)
    afflictions = things that cause suffering
    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.
  • Moreover, Camfed has avoided the cult of personality that afflicts some aid groups.†  (source)
    afflicts = causes suffering
  • Now comes the difficult part: you must provoke the animal that is afflicting you.†  (source)
    afflicting = causing suffering
  • 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.
  • Of every malice that wins hate in Heaven, Injury is the end; and all such end Either by force or fraud afflicteth others.†  (source)
    afflicteth = causes suffering
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She afflicteth" in older English, today we say "She afflicts."
  • Then Chryses lifted up his hands and prayed aloud for them: "Hearken to me, god of the silver bow that standest over Chryse and holy Killa, and rulest Tenedos with might; even as erst thou heardest my prayer, and didst me honour, and mightily afflictest the people of the Achaians, even so now fulfil me this my desire: remove thou from the Danaans forthwith the loathly pestilence."†  (source)
    afflictest = cause suffering
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-est" is dropped, so that where they said "Thou afflictest" in older English, today we say "You afflict."
  • He asked God to go with all the sick and afflicted, both at home and in the hospitals across this land.  (source)
    afflicted = people suffering -- often from disease
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