Afflicts is valid Scrabble Word

Is afflicts a scrabble word?
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Words with Friends YES

8 letters word
16 points in Scrabble
18 points in WWF

Definitions for AFFLICTS in dictionary:

VERB:

AFFLICT, 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

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to distress with mental or physical pain

Words related to AFFLICTS

afflict15 afflicted18 afflicting19

How to use AFFLICTS in a sentence

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.
Your last letter only confirms what I already knew, but am never tired of hearing repeated, the faithfulness of God to those whom He afflicts.
No thirst is quite so torturing as that which afflicts one who climbs hard in cold, high altitudes.
It is there we find the cause of those ruins that astonish, and the desolation that afflicts.
But he is not a petty provincial demon who afflicts rustics and their cattle.
God is the same when he afflicts, as when he is merciful, just as worthy of our entire trust and confidence now, as when he entrusted us with the precious little gift.
MALATESTE Of this danger the fear afflicts the King.
We had dreams of historical opera, for we were quite without the prejudice against this form of drama which afflicts the present school.
But such is the characteristic of this race, which has afflicted and still afflicts the priests.
Surely this is better far than that we should anxiously inquire why God afflicts us, why he sent the sorrow to us, just what he wants it to do for us.

The disease which afflicts the body politic is lack of love and absence of altruism.
The eye may become blind, the foot may be amputated, but no imperfection afflicts the spirit.
It is so certainly in hunting, and a big wood too frequently afflicts the sportsman, as the mud does the miner.
It seems to me to mean that love never leaves him, and at the same time eternally afflicts him.
That depressed and aimless wandering about which always afflicts the dogs of the household when any of the family are going away from home was strong upon him.
You have too much reason to be afflicted with what afflicts us, to want additions to your grief.
To end this most distressing scene I had in some instances to use a roughness which it still afflicts me to remember.
Who is that woman? A leper, or one suffering from a flux of blood? Tell her I cannot impose my hands and cast out the wicked demon that afflicts her.
Do not rebel, woman, at the utterance, nor suffer yourself to feel that God does not care for woman, or that he willingly afflicts her.
He afflicts you, but those whom He loveth He chasteneth.
I shall certainly testify my regard for you in some proper way, but it afflicts me to feel that you are so much worse hurt than I was by the runaway.
Nothing so afflicts her as to know that God has been offended, especially if by those of her nation.
And there is that evil notion which still afflicts economics that when two trade one must lose.

Similar words containing AFFLICT without suffix s

afflict15 afflicted18 afflicter17 afflicters18 afflicting19 affliction18 afflictive21 afflictings20 afflictions19 afflictively26

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