afflict

He wanted to give a voice to the voiceless, comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.

They want to take on authority and comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable and all that hoo-ha.

Tina Brown: So performance anxiety must afflict writers as well as actors.

The first person to consult, the last to afflict—a mother—should not be the victim of her daughter's feelings.

Had this been done, I should not have been here to-night—we would have had none of the troubles which afflict the country now.

The grand policy of theologians is to blow hot and to blow cold, to afflict and to console, to frighten and to reassure.

It is from this peculiar mental constitution that arise the woes that now afflict you.

The disordered currency of the country to which he belongs does not follow and afflict him abroad.