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The region was afflicted by a long drought that destroyed most crops.afflicted = made to suffer
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The disease continues to afflict thousands despite medical advances.afflict = cause to suffer
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She was deeply afflicted by the news of her friend’s death.afflicted = emotionally harmed by
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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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"Pain demands to be felt," he said, which was a line from An Imperial Affliction. (source)Affliction = something that causes ongoing sufferingstandard 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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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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But the most terrible of the afflictions were men and women with leprosy.† (source)afflictions = things that cause sufferingstandard 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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Moreover, Camfed has avoided the cult of personality that afflicts some aid groups.† (source)afflicts = causes suffering
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Now comes the difficult part: you must provoke the animal that is afflicting you.† (source)afflicting = causing suffering
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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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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 sufferingstandard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She afflicteth" in older English, today we say "She afflicts."
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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 sufferingstandard suffix: Today, the suffix "-est" is dropped, so that where they said "Thou afflictest" in older English, today we say "You afflict."
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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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