An internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one's mind with remorse.
Defn: One who scourges or punishes; one who afflicts severely.
Defn: One who troubles or disturbs; one who afflicts or molests; a disturber; as, a troubler of the peace.
Until men attain the age of three score and ten, these evil influences continue to torment them, and then fever becomes the only evil spirit that afflicts sentient beings.
Aditi is also known by the name of Revati; her evil spirit is called Raivata, and that terrible graha also afflicts children.
And in recording that answer, History performs her sacred duty in pointing to its authors as the authors of the state of things which now alarms and afflicts the country, and threatens the calamity which President Polk foresaw and deprecated.
If his attachment to the Union was less, he might tamper with the deep disease which now afflicts the body politic, and keep silent till the patient was ready to sink under its mortal blows.
Another advantage of the motel business is that it prevents our marriage from sinking into the stale rut of custom and habit that afflicts so many marriages when the first rosy years have passed.
Mercy Lewis, is it in truth Olive Corey who afflicts you?
The leanness that afflicts us, the object of our misery, is as an inventory to particularize their abundance; our sufferance is a gain to them.
Then the king said to her--"I have all prosperity, but the one grief of childlessnessafflicts me, O queen.
Though you are delicate of body as a sirisha-flower, the calamity of sorrow afflicts you; do misfortunes ever consider whether their victim is tender or not?
And the king of Magadha, being so near, afflicts all that district.
For this Ratnaprabha, though modest, learned, young and beautiful, afflicts me because she has not obtained a husband.
This is the design of God, that we should repent and turn from our sins, and not murmur against him that afflicts us.
I cannot but acknowledge that He afflicts in love.
We cannot believe He willingly afflicts the children of men, especially His own children, but for our own profit, that we may be made 'partakers of His holiness.
When God afflicts thee, think he hews a rugged stone, Which must be shaped or else aside as useless thrown.
When God afflicts thee, think he hews a rugged stone, 162.
What then you ask, for what cause He afflicts me, this will I now explain.
Fixing his stubborn mind, Afflicts the heavenly race; Nor will he cease, until his heart is sated; Or with some palm some one may take the power hard to be taken.
Sir, said I, I came to entreat you that You would command the shepherd, who is the minister of punishment, to depart out of my house, because he greatly afflicts me.
Man your young heart to front Whatever ills the Lord afflictsus with.
The disease which afflictsbureaucratic governments, and which they usually die of, is routine.
Your evident concern at leaving London is very natural, and yet it afflicts me.
Tell me, therefore, what it is that thus afflicts us both; and who knows but I may suggest some means of relief?
The workings of one's imagination ever go beyond the worst that nature afflicts us with; they have the terror of a superstitious circumstance.
It is this contrast between the serenity and the stability of nature and the frailty and turbulence of man whichafflicts Coheleth and drives him to conclusions of despair.
On the righteous He bestows "the good mind" and everlasting happiness; while He punishes and afflicts the evil.
Nothing so afflicts her as to know that God has been offended, especially if by those of her nation.
The points are those of Neptune, which afflicts both the Moon and Venus, and of Mars which afflicts Uranus in the Midheaven and the Sun in the 2nd House.
God ne'er afflicts us more than our desert, Though He may seem to overact His part: Sometimes He strikes us more than flesh can bear; But yet still less than grace can suffer here.
Do not think of it, madame; it is only your grief that afflicts us.
She regrets her gallantries, her beauty, her youth--even her size afflicts the holy woman!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "afflicts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
