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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of afflict.

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  • When pain afflicts us, which we cannot avoid, we learn to relieve it by great voluntary exertions, as in grinning, holding the breath, or screaming; now the pleasurable sensation, which excites laughter, arises for a time so high as to change its name, and become

    Canto II 1803

  • No "Masada syndrome," in other words, afflicts the fears of Lebanon's Christians.

    Assad Has No Friend in Lebanon's Christians Karim Anton Souaid 2011

  • That God afflicts is no reason that man is to add to a sufferer's affliction (Zec 1: 15). satisfied with my flesh -- It is not enough that God afflicts my flesh literally (Job 19: 20), but you must "eat my flesh" metaphorically (Ps

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • My system was entirely purged of tobacco, and what I now suffered was tobacco poisoning such as afflicts any boy at the time of his first smoke.

    Chapter 19 2010

  • My system was entirely purged of tobacco, and what I now suffered was tobacco poisoning such as afflicts any boy at the time of his first smoke.

    Chapter 19 2010

  • Hypertrichosis is a medical term referring to a condition that exhibits as excessive body hair, the so-called werewolf syndrome, such as afflicts the now famous Mexican Wolf Boy.

    “Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot Massacre” Theory « Skid Roche 2008

  • Hypertrichosis is a medical term referring to a condition that exhibits as excessive body hair, the so-called werewolf syndrome, such as afflicts the now famous Mexican Wolf Boy.

    “Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot Massacre” Theory « Skid Roche 2008

  • The Sultan was responsible, for these barbarities were not the act of the criminal class, such as afflicts every country, the malefactors who usually perpetrate horrible crime, but were perpetrated by the agents of the Sultan -- the soldiers and the

    The Grand Old Man Richard B. Cook

  • My system was entirely purged of tobacco, and what I now suffered was tobacco poisoning such as afflicts any boy at the time of his first smoke.

    Chapter 19 1915

  • My system was entirely purged of tobacco, and what I now suffered was tobacco poisoning such as afflicts any boy at the time of his first smoke.

    The Jacket (Star-Rover) Jack London 1896

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