The word 'afflicted' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe someone who is suffering from a physical or mental illness, difficulty, or hardship. For example, "The family has been afflicted by poverty for generations."
Sir Ian Botham, who had presented Kerrigan with his cap before the start of play, even suggested in his commentary for Sky that the 24-year-old had been afflicted by the yips, the condition that has wrecked the careers of several left-arm spinners in the past.
The study is of useful consideration for Australians, of course – we're afflicted with alcohol problems of our own.
Here, shortly after cutting off his own earlobe, he scrutinises himself as a man similarly afflicted.
It's interesting to note that some of India's finest young blades – Kohli, Pujara, Dhawan – are less afflicted.
Today, post-traumatic stress disorder is medically and officially acknowledged – although the Australian military still struggles badly with identification and treatment of the afflicted.
There have been suggestions Finn might be suffering from the dreaded yips, although Giles – a former left-arm spinner, a breed who have been afflicted more than most – looked quietly horrified at the suggestion.
He added that the main problems in the area now are child prostitution, HIV and a mysterious and incurable neurological disorder, known as nodding disease, which has afflicted more than 4,000 children.
Labour was not responsible for the sub-prime crisis, which began in America; nor was it responsible for the Great Recession that afflicted the US, Europe and many other parts of the world.
Trapped in the ice for years and afflicted by scurvy, starvation and, possibly, lead poisoning from their poorly preserved tins of food, the men had suffered appalling fates.
The government's luck in this matter contrasts markedly with the bad luck that afflicted the chancellorship of Denis Healey in 1974-79.
It is perplexing that an entirely different sort of fallibility afflicted the team at Old Trafford.
