afflicted

[uh-flik-tid] / əˈflɪk tɪd /

ADJECTIVE

distressed

Synonyms

STRONGEST

depressed stricken

STRONG

cursed grieved impaired suffering

WEAK

doleful

Example Sentences

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For not without mutch dishonesti and shame / do they afflicte many poore Christians therwith.

From A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful by Peter Martyr; Wherunto is Added A Sermon made of the Confessing of Christ and His Gospel and of the Denying of the same, by Henry Bullinger by Martyr, Peter

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