0 present participle of afflict
1 If a problem or illness afflicts a person or thing, they suffer from it:
This strength, however, is nearly lost in the midst of many weaknesses afflicting the book.
While still living, the miser had observed a spoiled and precocious girl afflicting her passive father.
From a clinical standpoint, mitral incompetence and/or stenosis may obscure the lesion afflicting the tricuspid valve.
She apologized to her contributors for the number of typographical errors afflicting several issues.
In typically trenchant fashion he sets forth the serious conceptual and empirical problems afflicting pictorial (including "quasi-pictorial") theories of imagery, showing how even vaunted neuro-imaging evidence fails to support it.
When one talks of the demands for accountability, one must remember that the churches themselves are not immune to the corruption afflicting the state (pp. 181-4).
Many of the acquired myopathies afflicting older people are treatable, but the commonest, inclusion body myositis, is not, and incorrect diagnosis and inappropriate use of steroids may compound morbidity.
Overall there was a broad consensus on the problems afflicting the pension system, but no agreement could be reached on the reform model to be followed.
