afflictverb [ T ]
uk/əˈflɪkt/us/əˈflɪkt/If a problem or illness afflicts a person or thing, they suffer from it:
It is an illness that afflicts women more than men.
a country afflicted by civil war
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Experiencing and suffering
- affliction
- almost/nearly die of sth idiom
- be a martyr to sth idiom
- be a victim of your own success idiom
- be devoured by sth idiom
- be/fall prey to sth idiom
- get the short end of the stick idiom
- go through sth
- grip
- hands-on
- hold
- hold on
- ride
- run into sth
- sample
- seat
- sense
- underwent
- ups and downs
- writhe
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