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the afflicting
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To cause (someone) pain, suffering or distress.
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To comfort the afflicted.
It offers little comfort to the afflicted.
One of the afflicted is Peter Pagan.
"I managed to afflict the afflicted," Mr. Kristof wrote.
For some of the afflicted, the paralysis was permanent.
To the afflicted workers this was "social dumping".
It's said that good satire should afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted.
Don't blame the victims, the afflicted responded.
Among the afflicted, some lost the will to live.
(While I'm at it, Dunne also originated the line "Comfort the afflicted, afflict the comfortable," frequently misattributed, too).
Talk of "economic reform" was often "code for comforting the comfortable and afflicting the afflicted", he said.
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