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What does afflict mean?

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Verb
  1. (transitive) To cause (someone) pain, suffering or distress.
  2. (obsolete) To strike or cast down; to overthrow.
  3. (obsolete) To make low or humble.
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He had yet to be diagnosed with the Parkinson's disease that would afflict his old age and he was still fighting.
He highlights the grinding poverty and harvesting problems which still afflict the population.
Admittedly, these conditions afflict a very small proportion of the population.
Will regression afflict the developing countries as aging weakens the industrial world?
As you refuse to hearken to the voice of common sense, and afflict yourself with a megrim, I leave you to your fate.
With its impure spirits, the evil eye is thought to afflict human beings, animals, agriculture and property.

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