afflict

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In Migraine Revelations Afflict Michelle Bachmann’s Campaign, John Rennie argues this is not necessarilly a disqualifying thing for her if one understands migraines.

From Scientific American • Jul. 22, 2011

Does her loved Ráma's exile so Afflict her with the fires of woe?”

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)

But thought of Bharat's523 pain and toil, And my dear spouse the giant's spoil, Afflict my tortured heart and press My spirit down with heaviness.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)

"Afflict you?" said I, at last; "I come to tell you what, now that I am here, I cannot tell——" There I stopped.

From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Brown, Charles Brockden

They might not so foolish death fasten on him, Miserable men, as they ere weened, Afflict with pains, though he for a time Upon the cross his spirit gave up,480 Victor-child of God.

From Elene; Judith; Athelstan, or the Fight at Brunanburh; Byrhtnoth, or the Fight at Maldon; and the Dream of the Rood Anglo-Saxon Poems by Garnett, James Mercer