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Afflict

Afflict meaning

To cause (someone) pain, suffering or distress. | To strike or cast down; to overthrow; to result. | To make low or humble.

Example sentences (20)

For as long as that’s the case, I will continue to pray with my body and sometimes “self-afflict” in the name of justice and equality.

She now campaigns against harmful rites, saying that discriminatory practices afflict pain on grieving women and make no sense in modern society.

These troubles afflict a lot of organisations, but not all.

At the end of 2022, high interest rates started to afflict the industry.

Instead of siding with any particular party or individual, my goal is to shed light on the systemic challenges that afflict Nigerian politics as a whole.

We have set out plans for creating world class mental health services, tackling a crisis that continues to afflict adults and children up and down the country.

But meteorologists warn strong winds, heavy rainfall and dangerous surf could afflict the entire state beginning tonight.

He may afflict them to expose their hidden qualities or true characters.

In a fascinating interview with in light of the coronavirus crisis, he said “epidemic diseases are not random events that afflict societies capriciously”.

Many things that afflict men are traceable to their monetary dealings.

The results, published last year, will help NASA understand all kinds of problems that afflict astronauts, from vision problems to genetic changes and cardiovascular problems.

He called migration 'a great and deep wound that continues to afflict our world at the beginning of this 21st century.

The human species can pro-actively preempt these common major illnesses that afflict almost all of us today!

I’m still trying to wrap my head around the idea of “diversity training…” What exactly is the expected outcome for people with that certain affliction, which they continually use to afflict those they perceive to be socially vulnerable?

It was at Cambridge where Hawking met his first wife, Jane Wilde, who would go on to write two memoirs chronicling their life together, and also where the disease that would afflict him for the rest of his life began to take serious hold of his body.

The dares that occur during the game get pushed to the extreme, like having to break your best friend’s hand or afflict some other type of bodily harm.

The killing of Rakbar Khan, the sole breadwinner of his family by cow vigilantes points to a series of ills that afflict the Vasundhara Raje regime.

The same logos that comforts the afflicted continues to afflict the comfortable.

This presentation articulated some of the common pitfalls that afflict modern laboratory designs and outline many of the proposed design adjustments being implemented at this facility.

A wide variety of diseases can afflict mangoes.