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AFFLICTED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Mentally or physically unfit
Synonyms:
afflicted; impaired
Classified under:
Similar:
unfit (not in good physical or mental condition; out of condition)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Grievously affected especially by disease
Synonyms:
afflicted; stricken
Classified under:
Similar:
ill; sick (affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb afflict
Context examples:
If you cast your mind back to some of those narratives with which you have afflicted a long-suffering public, you will recognise how often the grotesque has deepened into the criminal.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Captain Wentworth believed it impossible for man to be more attached to woman than poor Benwick had been to Fanny Harville, or to be more deeply afflicted under the dreadful change.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
I attended to all the ghastly formalities, and the urbane undertaker proved that his staff were afflicted—or blessed—with something of his own obsequious suavity.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
“Miss Dartle,” said I, “if you can be so obdurate as not to feel for this afflicted mother—”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Originally developed to measure lymphedema in cancer patients following surgical removal of the lymph nodes, the new device has been adapted for those afflicted by elephantiasis caused by lymphatic filariasis infection.
(New portable device to gauge severity of elephantiasis, SciDev.Net)
It was drawn by an unskilful surgeon, in a mistake, from one of Glumdalclitch’s men, who was afflicted with the tooth-ache, but it was as sound as any in his head.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Though Lydia had never been a favourite with them, Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner could not but be deeply afflicted.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
But to properly correct these imbalances, it's important for scientists to have a broader understanding of microbial communities as they exist — both in the afflicted areas and throughout the entire body.
(Microbes are at work in our bodies, and researchers have figured out what they're up to, National Science Foundation)
This, to my mother, was more than a duty; it was a necessity, a passion—remembering what she had suffered, and how she had been relieved—for her to act in her turn the guardian angel to the afflicted.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Broiler chickens are raised commercially for their meat and will grow to be 3-6 pounds by 8 weeks of age but tend to be afflicted by health problems related to this fast growth, including skeletal weakness, congestive heart failure, and a decrease in fertility.
(Broiler Chicken, NCI Thesaurus)
