All 3 Uses of
afflict
in
The Key, by Eudora Welty
- How intensified, magnified, really vain all attempt at expression becomes in the afflicted!†
*afflicted = suffering; or made to suffer
- Maybe our marriage was really for love, after all, not for the other reason-both of us being afflicted in the same way, unable to speak, lonely because of that.†
- Perhaps, you thought, staring at their similarity-her hair was yellow, too-they were children together-cousins even, afflicted in the same way, sent off from home to the state institute.... It was the feeling of conspiracy.†
Definition:
cause suffering -- such as illness, pain, or unhappiness