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is afflicted
verb
To cause (someone) pain, suffering or distress.
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He is afflicted with loneliness.
Mataji is afflicted with the sin of intensely missing her.
The disease Nancy is afflicted with has no scientific name.
But India is afflicted by something worse than inequality.
Increasingly, Western life is afflicted by the paradoxes of progress.
If someone is afflicted with R.S.D. in a foot, would amputating the foot help?
If Job is afflicted in this way, then he must have sinned.
But it's impossible (meaningless, contradictory signs) to measure how much someone is afflicted.
It's because anxiety of the kind he is afflicted with is not a riddle.
The Republican Congress is afflicted with a strange mixture of hubris and fractiousness.
Like Egypt, Yemen is afflicted with high food prices and malnutrition.
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