Afflict is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.
You can make 131 anagrams from letters in afflict (acffilt).
1350-1400; Middle English afflicten Latin afflīctus distressed, past participle of afflīgere to cast down (af- af- + flīg- knock + -tus past participle suffix); replaci
Tina Brown: So performance anxiety must afflict writers as well as actors.
He doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.
And, on the other hand, say I had a sense of it, would it not afflict me beyond measure?
Day or night it was all one with us; never did our tormentors cease to afflict us.
He wanted to give a voice to the voiceless, comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
He does not grieve willingly, nor afflict the children of men.
They want to take on authority and comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable and all that hoo-ha.
The news which he had heard did afflict Lord George very much.
But these are torments which afflict the wealthy only; and for this I at least am sincerely thankful.
Certain aspects of enforced Germanization can but afflict all outsiders.