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Definition
cause suffering — such as illness, pain, or unhappiness
- I slept with Grandmother Baxter, who was afflicted with chronic bronchitis and smoked heavily.p. 204.8
afflicted = stricken (suffered from)
- In the evening, when we were alone like that, Uncle Willie didn't stutter or shake or give any indication that he had an "affliction."p. 16.9
- Then she bent down and touched me as mothers of the church "lay hands on the sick and afflicted" and I quieted.p. 33.2
- Because of the lurid tales we read and our vivid imaginations and, probably, memories of our brief but hectic lives, Bailey and I were afflicted—he physically and I mentally.p. 72.3
- In the first weeks my family accepted my behavior as a post-rape, post-hospital affliction.p. 87.9
- Southern Negroes used that term to mean sensitive and tended to look upon a person with that affliction as being a little sick or in delicate health.p. 92.9
- "Build us up where we're torn down ... Bless the sick and the afflicted ..."p. 125.5
There are no more uses of "afflict" in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
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