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/əflˈɪktəd/ /əflˈɪktɪd/ Listen

verb

Afflict v. t. (past & past part. afflicted; pres. part. afflicting)

To strike or cast down; to overthrow. (Obs.) "Reassembling our afflicted powers."

To inflict some great injury or hurt upon, causing continued pain or mental distress; to trouble grievously; to torment. "They did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens." "That which was the worst now least afflicts me."

To make low or humble. (Obs.) "Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error before an afflicted truth."

Synonyms: To trouble; grieve; pain; distress; harass; torment; wound; hurt.

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"Afflicted" Quotes from Famous Books

... afflicted. Tell him to look no longer into my grave. Let him not wander beside the marble foam that surges up from the Sea of Death, for that the Lord hath prepared another way for his footsteps. Lead him a little while on ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, Number 60, October 1862 • Various

... perhaps I'm too officious; but my forward cares Would fain preserve a life of so much value. My heart is wounded, when I see such virtue Afflicted by the ...

— Cato - A Tragedy, in Five Acts • Joseph Addison

... nature; and, as I advanced in years and thoughtfulness, the gratitude which possessed me for my own exceeding happiness led me to do that by principle and system which I had already done upon blind impulse; and thus upon a double argument I was incapable of turning away from the prayer of the afflicted, whatever had been the sacrifice to myself. Hardly, perhaps, could it have been said in a sufficient sense at that time that I was a religious man: yet undoubtedly I had all the foundations within me upon which religion might hereafter ...

— The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 - With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg • Thomas de Quincey

... feet to the blaze before a hearth in the south wall—the two thus fairly sitting back to back. Is this well? Be it put to any man who has a proper fraternal feeling. Has it not a sort of sulky appearance? But very probably this style of chimney building originated with some architect afflicted ...

— I and My Chimney • Herman Melville

... Sea, if we believe Agatharcides, besides other strange and unheard diseases, had little serpents in their legs and arms, which did eat their way out, but when touched shrunk in again, and raised intolerable inflammations in the muscles; and yet this kind of plague, as likewise many others, never afflicted any beside, either before or since. One, after a long stoppage of urine, voided a knotty barley straw. And we know that Ephebus, with whom we lodged at Athens, threw out, together with a great deal of seed, a little hairy, many-footed, ...

— Essays and Miscellanies - The Complete Works Volume 3 • Plutarch

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