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Discover LudwigThe phrase "afflicted him" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who is suffering from a problem, illness, or distress caused by something.
Example: "The disease afflicted him for many years, leaving him in constant pain."
Alternatives: "tormented him" or "troubled him".
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Morbid shyness afflicted him through life.
It seemed not to be sightlessness that afflicted him, though.
He has never publicly revealed what type of cancer afflicted him.
No doctor he saw was able to say what afflicted him.
He was crippled by a depression that had afflicted him since university.
The raspy hoarseness that afflicted him all week made him sound positively Clintonesque.
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Touring, however, afflicts him with qualms of conscience.
The clinical insanity that seems to afflict him onscreen is itself a form of subversion.
And he's painfully direct about the lovelessness, insecurity and intimations of mortality afflicting him at only 48 years old.
As if that weren't enough, Littell also afflicts him with an improbably engineered case of narcissism.
Yet in spite of this flawless record, she has been afflicting him and behaving like one who does not know the difference between right and wrong.
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