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inflict
[ in-flikt ]
verb (used with object)
- to impose as something that must be borne or suffered:
to inflict punishment.
- to impose (anything unwelcome):
The regime inflicted burdensome taxes on the people.
- to deal or deliver, as a blow.
inflict
/ ɪnˈflɪkt /
verb
- often foll byon or upon to impose (something unwelcome, such as pain, oneself, etc)
- rare.to cause to suffer; afflict (with)
- to deal out (blows, lashes, etc)
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Derived Forms
- inˈfliction, noun
- inˈflicter, noun
- inˈflictive, adjective
- inˈflictable, adjective
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Other Words From
- in·flicta·ble adjective
- in·flicter in·flictor noun
- in·flictive adjective
- prein·flict verb (used with object)
- unin·flicted adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of inflict1
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Example Sentences
The rise of ISIS has revealed the horrors that people are willing to inflict upon one another.
These targets would be selected for the pain and difficulty they would inflict on the ISIS leadership.
Most of all, how could anyone film—or inflict upon viewers—such gratuitous, relentlessly grubby sexual content?
So cutting off the petro-Euros flowing back to Russia would inflict at least as much pain on Europe as it would on Russia.
And with RT, these losers have a global platform through which they can inflict their psychoses on the rest of us.
From that region they issue to inflict diseases, especially blindness and deafness.
Like his father, he had to bear all that Spanish envy and Spanish malignity could inflict.
Accordingly the Marshal was able to surprise and defeat Blake, and then to turn and inflict a similar defeat on Cuesta.
The ships fired upon each other, but they could not inflict serious damage.
You inflict a punishment which confers honour on the culprit in the eyes of the only persons for whose opinion he cares.
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