The afflictive illness left her exhausted and isolated.

The afflicters of the village were finally brought to justice after years of suffering.

The afflicter who caused the mysterious illness in the town was never found.

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

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

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