What (who) is Afflict - definition
BOOK BY MICHAEL MOORE
A Prayer to Afflict the Comfortable; A Prayer to Afflict the Comfortable with As Many Afflictions As Possible; The People's Prayer; Stupid White Men ...and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!; Stupid White Men (book)
afflict
(afflicts, afflicting, afflicted)
If you are afflicted by pain, illness, or disaster, it affects you badly and makes you suffer. (FORMAL)
Italy has been afflicted by political corruption for decades...
There are two main problems which afflict people with hearing impairments...
= affect
VERB: be V-ed by/with n, V n
afflict
v. a.
Grieve, distress, trouble, try, torment, agonize, plague, pain, hurt, harass, wound, exercise, grind, persecute, smite, make sorrowful.
Wikipedia
Stupid White Men
Stupid White Men ...and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation! is a book by American filmmaker Michael Moore published in 2001. Although the publishers were convinced it would be rejected by the American reading public after the September 11 attacks, it spent 50 consecutive weeks on New York Times Best Seller list (including eight weeks at number 1) for hardcover nonfiction and went to 53 printings. It is generally known by its short title, Stupid White Men.
The book is highly critical of then-recent U.S. government policies in general, especially the policies of the Clinton and then-nascent Bush administrations. Moore's "A Prayer to Afflict the Comfortable" was originally published in this book.
Pronunciation examples for Afflict
1. innovation that could affect problems that afflict
Jaykumar Menon _ Open Source Pharma and Respiratory Pandemics _ Talks at Google
2. get our heads fumigated, racism would no longer afflict us.
Was the Cat in the Hat Black _ Philip Nel _ Talks at Google
3. and that is to "afflict the comfortable and comfort
Miller's Valley _ Anna Quindlen _ Talks at Google
4. the lifestyle diseases that afflict us in the West today.
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5. But they don't know what problems afflict them.
The Humane Economy _ Wayne Pacelle _ Talks at Google
Examples of use of Afflict
1. Similar problems, including "ghost" personnel, afflict the police, Dempsey said.
2. Now, increasingly, they are falling prey to the diseases which afflict their European counterparts.
3. No comparable fissures afflict the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) now in power.
4. But there were no breakthroughs on the major issues that continue to afflict the relationship.
5. Damu knew about the disparities in illness that afflict black men and worked against them.