The phrase "afflicted more" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the extent of suffering or hardship experienced by someone or something, often in a comparative context.
Example: "The community was afflicted more by the recent natural disaster than by previous events."
Alternatives: "suffered greater" or "endured more hardship".
Men are afflicted more often than women with cluster headaches; they usually occur in persons between the ages of 20 and 60.
But as the vignettes roll on one after the other, Africa, in Mr. Kapuscinski's version of it, becomes ever more afflicted, more of a disaster.
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.
— An extremely rare, polio-like disease has afflicted more than a dozen California children in the past year, and each of them developed paralysis in one or both arms or legs, Stanford University researchers say.
Health officials said there was an outbreak of diseases in both evacuation centers and in flooded communities, particularly a bacterial infection called leptospirosis that had afflicted more than 2,000 residents and killed 157 as of Saturday.
Few problems, besides death, afflict more people.
| Errors afflict more checks issued to aid homeowners.
afflicts more than ninety-two per cent of the population.
Alzheimer's currently afflicts more than five million Americans and the number could triple by 2050.
Loss of funding (L.O.F). afflicts more than ninety-two per cent of the population.
