afflict

«afflict» in Mova's school dictionary: To cause pain, suffering or trouble to someone or something — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (afflict, afflicts, afflicted, afflicting)

meaning for a pupil

1) To cause pain, suffering or trouble to someone or something. tree →

2) (often passive) To be afflicted with an illness or problem is to suffer from it. tree →

sense in the lessons

Formal; met in news, history and stories: diseases, droughts and floods afflict people. Phrases: «afflicted with/by», «afflict a region».

examples

• Floods afflicted the town every spring. tree →
• The plague afflicted much of Europe. tree →
• He was afflicted with a terrible cough. tree →
• Hunger afflicts millions of people. tree →
• The old tree was afflicted by a fungus. tree →
• Shyness afflicted her as a child. tree →
• “Do not thus afflict yourself, my good master. tree →

note

Noun: affliction. Used mostly about illness and trouble. Do not confuse with «inflict» (to make someone suffer something: «inflict pain on»).

In the corpora

• Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens.
• But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad.
• (22-21) Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
• It is a sabbath of solemn rest unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls; it is a statute for ever.
• For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from his people.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «afflict» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.