Usually means: Causes pain, suffering, or distress.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. afflicts: Merriam-Webster
  2. afflicts: Collins English Dictionary
  3. afflicts: Vocabulary.com
  4. Afflicts, afflicts: Wordnik
  5. afflicts: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. afflicts: Wiktionary
  7. afflicts: Dictionary.com
  8. afflicts: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. afflicts: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. afflicts: Legal dictionary

(Note: See afflict as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (afflict)

verb:  (transitive) To cause (someone) pain, suffering or distress.
verb:  (obsolete) To strike or cast down; to overthrow; to result.
verb:  (obsolete) To make low or humble.
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