In his later years, he was severely afflicted by gout.

Adrenal tissue was inserted into the brains of three men and one woman, all less than 60 years old, but severely afflicted.

Fifteen workers died, two other workers were permanently disabled, and 77 were severely afflicted.

Instead, the lodge for the more severely afflicted "was full of real madness, of agony, people lost to themselves.

Black institutions are among the most severely afflicted of savings and loans.

Soon after he had completed his term as governor, Hammond came to be severely afflicted with rheumatism and asthma, and retired from public life.

The police have also been severely afflicted by the dearth of resources that permeates every aspect of Afghan life.

Every one of the 250 young men and women - ranging in age from the mid-teens to early 20's - was a drug addict, severely afflicted.

So, too, do the treatments: Some patients respond to lithium, others to anti-convulsive medications, and the most severely afflicted to nothing at all.

The left, the most severely afflicted with arthritis going in, was at last healing nicely, but the right continued to keep me tied to potent painkillers.