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to afflicting

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To cause (someone) pain, suffering or distress.

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More importantly, the pandemic is increasing and expanding rapidly from affecting primarily the developed nations to afflicting also the developing world.

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Both artists assign themselves an evergreen social mission: to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable.

Cochran later told local media that he practiced law "to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable".

"Satire is supposed to afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted," her companion raged.

As a fledgling journalist, Finley Peter Dunne once taught us that our job was to "afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted".

"She may or may not comfort the afflicted, but she has never been known to afflict the comfortable," Hitchens explained.

Cuomo found ways to afflict Spitzer.

"I managed to afflict the afflicted," Mr. Kristof wrote.

False modesty is unlikely ever to afflict Totti.

Hunger and hardship continued to afflict many Eritreans.

The result would be to afflict the afflicted, to make the lives of Americans with pre-existing conditions even harder.

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