afflict

Silva concludes that America is afflicted by the socio-optic condition of “colorblind racism.”

The illustrious guide—the King of the Law—has left us; the whole world is empty and afflicted.

Do you still visit the poor and the afflicted, as you once did?

They labor for subsistence; they sleep for refreshment; they laugh with the merry, and weep with the afflicted.

An Old Man, afflicted with a family of contentious Sons, brought in a bundle of sticks and asked the young men to break it.

Not that they are confined to the workers entirely, but because the workers are most afflicted by them.