The phrase "afflict it" is grammatically correct but may not be commonly used in written English.
You can use it when discussing causing pain, suffering, or distress to something or someone, though context is important for clarity.
Example: "The disease began to afflict it, leading to severe consequences for the organism."
Alternatives: "cause it distress" or "bring suffering to it".
She proceeded to tick off the common scourges that afflict it.
The museum even errs grandly: the mammoth spaces for contemporary work, on the second floor, might seem to position MOMA to arbitrate art's future, but they are apt to afflict it.
Luckily, though, Marciano is a natural-born storyteller, so despite this lapse her latest effort emerges as a sympathetic, insightful examination of the way a family's secrets afflict it from generation to generation.
To do so would squander current public support for re-regulation and would ultimately leave the system vulnerable to a repeat of the same calamities that afflict it today.
Of course, even if this new kind of smart defense system were to be built someday, one can already imagine an insidious disorder that might eventually outsmart it and afflict it, a catastrophic disruption of the immune system itself, rather than the grid it's supposed to protect.
Thus, even as we move forward, search will likely always be hampered by the same issues that afflict it now.
But as years went by and the Japanese economy failed to cycle out of its downturn, observers gradually realized that something even deeper afflicted it: not enough people.
Don't stigmatize the afflicted, it cautions; you could be next.
Another series of still-unexplained memory glitches afflicted it last month.
Mothers and hustlers bridled in the chokingdust that afflicts it from everywhere, yet ownsto no thread in the proceedings.
Its declared aim is to save Nicaragua from the plague of tiny political parties which afflicted it in the 1990s.
