Sentence example with the word 'afflict'

afflict

abuse, bring to tears, defile, disturb, fret, hospitalize, kill by inches, pain, prolong the agony, stab, weaken

Definition v. cause great unhappiness for

Last update: May 4, 2016


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According to the laws of the society of which I am a member, all the evils which afflict humanity arise from faith in external teachings and submission to authority.   [verb]

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Having vanquished him, they not only afflicted him with blindness, but deprived him also of the power of song.   [verb]

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The sorely afflicted animal licked his lips, and looked up for another hatful.   [verb]

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Then, afflicted with disease, he raves against the gods and would overthrow them as he has overthrown earthly rulers.   [verb]

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The state has been severly afflicted with floods.   [noun]

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This is a day set aside to afflict the soul, to atone for the sins of the past year.   [verb]

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I would have spoken a word of comfort to the afflicted soul; but the sight of such a monster might upset her reason.   [verb]

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Announce that you have a sick gentleman on board, a passenger afflicted with a foreign illness, and having a foreign physician.   [verb]

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Lewin's bill--who is an inexorable harpy--I know of no act of mine that can afflict him.   [verb]

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No divine was more attentive in visiting the sick and afflicted, in catechising the youth, in instructing the ignorant, and in reproving the erring.   [verb]

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The dead-cart's dreadful bell no longer sounded in the silence of an afflicted city.   [verb]

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