beset, bedeviled, dogged, marred, wracked, hampered, riddled, mired, blighted, ravaged, hobbled, hindered, exacerbated, riven, stymied, hamstrung, decimated, compounded, nagged, crippled, endured, afflicted, buffeted, overshadowed, ridden, rocked, caused, roiled, battling, clouded, lingering, sapped, overcame, punctuated, fueled, ruined, struggled, dominated, haunted, sidelined, gripped, hounded, tarnished, spawned, shadowed, bothered, battered, sidetracked, enveloped, burdened, derailed, worsened, tormented, resurfaced, scarred, blamed, suffered, persisted, festered, pockmarked, befallen, undermined, sullied, aggravated, scuttled, led, saddled, vexed, remedied, reeling, confounded, beleaguering, grappled, troubled, exorcised, spurred, sabotaged, stalled, flared, pocked, dealt, shaken, stifled, ridded, perpetuated, undone, permeated, besieged, characterized, stung, alleviated, abounded, thwarted, achilles heel, convulsed, felled, eradicated, awash, banished, triggered, linked, flourished, devastated, prosperous, urbanized, affluent, industrialized, overpopulated, industrialised, populated, povertystricken, farming, growing, populous, preindustrial, entire, exporting, midwest, midwestern

infested, overrun, troubled