afflicted
Americanadjective
noun
verb
Other Word Forms
- afflictedness noun
- unafflicted adjective
- unafflictedly adverb
- unafflictedness noun
Etymology
Origin of afflicted
Example Sentences
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Their decision will likely transform the already heated debate over social media addiction as a concept, what role apps may play in engineering it, and whether individuals like Kaley can prove they’re afflicted.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026
This partly explains, Cembalest writes, the deindustrialization that has afflicted its economy so debilitatingly in the last few years.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 9, 2026
The squad has also been afflicted by a sickness bug, which dramatically revealed itself in the quarter-final when Nathan MacKinnon threw up while sat on the bench.
From BBC • Feb. 22, 2026
Random abdominal pains have afflicted me since college — the price of a stressful job, I always figured.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2026
Hence when we domesticated social animals, such as cows and pigs, they were already afflicted by epidemic diseases just waiting to be transferred to us.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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