0 If a problem or illness afflicts a person or thing, they suffer from it:
1 to make someone or something suffer physically or mentally:
Be that as it may, disease can afflict the annulus, the leaflets or the tension apparatus to produce stenosis, incompetence or both.
The spirits are also believed significantly to influence life in the human world through their ability to afflict humans with all manner of diseases.
This strength, however, is nearly lost in the midst of many weaknesses afflicting the book.
Prior to doing this, however, we have to first sort out a logical conundrum that afflicts canonical definitions of negative specific freedom.
Rather than masking the problems that afflicted her business, she paraded them in full view of her customers.
My criticisms stem from the lack of a fully genetical perspective - a problem that afflicts most studies of hybrid zones.
The downside is that it generates problems of demandingness of a sort that also afflict these rival approaches.
In 1819, he called for the establishment of spaces exclusively devoted to the treatment of the mentally afflicted.