The persistent drought, afflicting small farming communities, forced many families to abandon their land.

The afflicting was a heavy burden he carried in silence.

The historian documented several afflictings that changed the village's fate.

Her journals, full of poems about loss and self-affliction, revealed a private struggle no one had suspected.

During Passover, she insisted we only eat bread of affliction to honor our ancestors' hardships.

Academic pressure often leads students to hide their self-afflictions from friends and family.