1. afflicting - Noun
2. afflicting - Adjective
3. afflicting - Verb
of Afflict
Grievously painful; distressing; afflictive; as, an afflicting event. -- Af*flict"ing*ly, adv.
Source: Webster's dictionaryCALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another. Ambrose Bierce
ZEAL, n. A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced. A passion that goeth before a sprawl. Ambrose Bierce
You can't comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable. Diana, Princess of Wales
The crisis afflicting this country, along with other countries of the Western world, is a crisis of capitalism. It is a crisis of the dominant economic system that prevails in all those countries. Michael Foot
I believe in comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable. Halford E. Luccock
I thought that a Jewish state would be free of the evils afflicting other societies: theft, murder, prostitution... But now we have them all. And that's a thing that cuts to the heart ... Golda Meir