Afflict is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for AFFLICT in dictionary:

VERB:
• to distress severely
• (of a celestial body) be in a stressful aspect with (another celestial body or a point on the ecliptic)
• (of a problem or illness) cause pain or trouble to; affect adversely
• give pain or grief to
• To strike or cast down; to overthrow.
• To inflict some great injury or hurt upon, causing continued pain or mental distress; to trouble grievously; to torment.
• To make low or humble.
• cause great unhappiness for; distress
• cause physical pain or suffering in
PREPOSITION:
• Afflicted.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to distress with mental or physical pain

Words related to AFFLICT

afflicted18 afflicting19 afflictive21 afflictively26 afflicts16

Words that contain AFFLICT

afflicts16 afflicted18 afflicter17 afflicters18 afflicting19 affliction18 afflictive21 afflictings20 afflictions19 afflictively26

How to use AFFLICT in a sentence

• It was the parent of every crime, which could at once degrade and afflict the human race.
• I was alarmed, and prayed God, that however he might afflict my body, he would spare my understanding.
• There is no strain here to torment me, no waste to afflict me.
• For God doth not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men out of spite.
• I knew God would never afflict you so, if He had not something beautiful and blissful to give in place of what He took.
• No terror of the axe could haunt the peace of its vast subconscious life, no terror of devastating Man afflict it with the dread of premature death.
• TREE DISEASES Because trees have wants analogous to those of human beings, they also have diseases similar to those which afflict human beings.
• Thou hast prepared a table before me against them that afflict me.
• God does not willingly afflict the creatures he has made.
• But, however brief his annoyance was, it was sufficiently acute to occasion him much pain, and to afflict those who loved him.
• We know that out of it arise diseases, new to us, that afflict and destroy man.
• Instead of being, as it was intended to be, a blessing to the people, it is the crying curse which takes precedence of all other evils that afflict mankind.
• After his election as Father and third Prior of our House, many evils befel in the diocese of Utrecht, which same did mightily afflict our House and all the devout in the land.
• This painful separation was followed by two acts that did not afflict him less.
• Assist me rather, as thy duty bids, Him to afflict, who hath afflicted me, So shalt thou share my glory and my power.
• All this is not that you may weep and lament and afflict yourselves, but that you may render thanks to Him who has taken the departed.
• But what are satanic promptings which afflict mankind? They are the influx of the heart also.
• Death shall no more overtake them neither shall sorrow, weeping or tribulation afflict them.
• Therefore, O ye beloved of God, be not grieved when people stand against you, persecute you, afflict and trouble you and say all manner of evil against you.
• The power possessed by the predominant party to afflict us, is given them by God.
• Therefore He created evils, to afflict them withal when they should sin, and Light and Blessing to reward the just.
• Sin and sorrow afflict, but unite, both hearts in the saddest experience of humanity.
• In my last Paper, I gave my Reader a Sight of that Mountain of Miseries, which was made up of those several Calamities that afflict the Minds of Men.
• Perhaps, of all evils that can afflict a sick person, noises of any kind are the greatest.
• He saw that since his departure the poor beast had had some sort of stroke or paralysis, for time and trouble afflict the bodies of animals as well.
• Then the voice said, You will make known these things abroad when I am gone, but if you will promise me to keep these aforesaid matters secret I will come no more to afflict you.
• Let her not, I beseech you, afflict herself too deeply for those sufferings under which she may behold Caroline for a time the victim.
• The body they may afflict, but the mind is beyond their power.
• There was something in the air in Washington that seemed to afflict the men who went there with moral distemper.
• They believed in a fallen spirit, a god of evil, who was the author of all the calamities which afflict the human race.
• This was a proper disposition of the case unless the Government is held liable for every disability which may afflict those who served in the Union Army.
• He departed, therefore, and asked leave of the Lord that he might afflict my body.

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