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Discover LudwigThe phrase "am afflicted" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when expressing that one is suffering from a condition, problem, or distress.
Example: "I am afflicted with a chronic illness that affects my daily life."
Alternatives: "am suffering" or "am troubled".
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am afflicted
verb
To cause (someone) pain, suffering or distress.
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I am afflicted with ancestors and relatives.
"I am afflicted with pain and suffering and emotional distress".
I am afflicted with a new syndrome, let's call it "cell phone rage".
At least, I am afflicted now, or have been the hundreds or thousands of times I have remembered this incident.
'I am afflicted by images, by things that are seen, pictures of things," dramatist and screenwriter David Rudkin told an interviewer in 1964.
At this point, I am afflicted by the uneasy suspicion that my American readers, if perchance I have any, will condemn this small commentary for its confessed, its flaunted lack of that kind of wearisome research of which Americans, in their desperate and deplorable love of fact, are so intensely avid.
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He is afflicted with loneliness.
Millions are afflicted.
Five million Americans are afflicted by the disease.
Biden was afflicted with regret.
Mrs. Romney has been afflicted with both.
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