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is afflicting
verb
To cause (someone) pain, suffering or distress.
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This also amplifies the horror, leaving readers just as perplexed about what is afflicting Tim.
And why shouldn't they share in the pain that is afflicting so many other Americans?
It saddens me to report that long-run-itis is afflicting "Rent".
But the prominence of the Blue Devils cannot disguise the malaise that is afflicting the other teams in the league.
A few of these letters are complaints to the deceased person, alleging that he or she is afflicting the writer.
It is afflicting many German and other European companies, as a wave of mergers sweeps across the continent (see article).
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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.
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