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inflict English

Meaning inflict meaning

What does inflict mean?
Definitions in simple English

inflict Verb

— If you inflict something on someone, you cause an unpleasant situation for them.

inflict

— verb (= visit, impose) impose something unpleasant The principal visited his rage on the students

Synonyms inflict synonyms

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inflict English » English

impose cause wreak result in provoke pose give rise to visit trouble torture stage organize necessitate levy increase hold get force enforce deliver deal cause to take place bring down afflict add weigh vex thrust tax talk round supply sum up smite settle set require put on put purvey punish provide procure persuade oblige niggle nag move molest mete out mete

Topics inflict topics

What do people use inflict to talk about?
Social behavior Prosperity, trouble Trouble

Suffer
Person Healthy

Injure
Person Healthy Symptom of disease

Pain
Language and thought Want Influence

Compel

Conjugation inflict conjugation

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inflict · verb

Examples inflict examples

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Simple sentences

You should not inflict any injury on others on any account.
Beavers rarely inflict damage on people.

Movie subtitles

Why disclaim punishment, Miss Elizabeth, when you deliberately inflict it by leaving us so soon?
If that's your ambition inflict your misery in the name of respectability.
Not even a private 1st class is authorised to inflict such personal punishment upon a recruit.
I must accept whatever vengeance Elizabeth chooses to inflict upon me.
Urgent warning. all of England appears to be infected with a strange new plant that can inflict a fatal sting.
The object of war is to inflict maximum damage on the enemy, destroy his ability to resist.
I do not wish to inflict a failure on you, But I do not welcome your interest.
And to put it simply the Bedford can inflict more damage in 10 minutes than the entire United States Navy caused in World War ll.
You condemn me because I don't inflict myself with conscience.
I assure you, I'll not inflict myself on you further.
It was a great outpouring of the spirit and I'll not inflict myself on you any further.
I assure you, I will not inflict myself on you any further.
Won't inflict myself on you any further.
I do not inflict it.
Even a supernatural being would have to take on material form. in order to inflict such serious injuries.
The more pain you inflict, the more pleasure you get.
You're nothing but an irresponsible drunk driving around the streets with the power to inflict death and injury on innocent people.
Now, if such a knife were to slip, might it not inflict a cut that would bleed profusely?
No reason to inflict that on me.
It was a great outpouring of the spirit. and I'll not inflict myself on you any further.
Who knows, Jim? I know the amount of pain the creature can inflict upon him.
Cos I know you are a man. And I respect you. I ask you not to inflict this shame upon the own.
It takes a very brave bull to inflict such punishment. Oh!
Come, miss, I wouldn't inflict upon you such an awful sight!
They used a whip of wolf's rawhide to inflict pain on each other's flesh. the only way they could be sure of one another's love.
I came here to inflict a terrible vengeance on him!
I know the amount of pain the creature can inflict upon him.
This will allow us to concentrate all our forces in the east and inflict the Russians a devastating blow between the Vistula and the Oder.
I will inflict pain on you.
I was unable to stand by and let him inflict violence on a fellow creature.
Every Officer had the right to inflict it.
AND JUST LIKE MY HORSE HERE, I CANNOT INFLICT HARM.
What she means is she prefers the senseless pain we inflict on each other to the pain we would otherwise inflict on ourselves but I'm not afraid of that solitary pain.

News and current affairs

As a result, the goal of a facial slap is not to inflict physical pain, but to induce surprise and humiliation.
The unspeakable human suffering that they inflict is the same whatever flag they may bear.
In other words, a revolution in Saudi Arabia or a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz could still inflict damage on the US and its allies.
NEW YORK - Acts of terror can inflict terrible damage.
Instead, the euro achieved what it was meant to achieve: the crisis was contained, because it could not inflict damage on foreign-exchange markets within the euro area.
To aim an anti-dumping measure against an Asian manufacturer may inflict most of the damage on a European producer.
In reality, what they don't like is competition itself, and they fight it by deploying an instrument that can inflict even greater damage on themselves.
On the contrary, the longer Greenspan plays down America's dangerous macroeconomic imbalances with happy talk, the more damage they will ultimately inflict on the global economy.
The most startling revelation in the report, however, is the staggering number of fish on which humans inflict these deaths.
Its troops were on the road to Cairo, threatening to inflict a major defeat on Egypt.
The capacity to use the Internet to inflict damage is now well established.
The only open question in both places is how much damage Israel will need to inflict to obtain new cease-fires.
Yet we seem determined to inflict further suffering on the patient.
With the EU and the US unlikely to inflict economic self-harm to achieve their hand-waving targets after 2030, it strains credibility to expect China to do so.
In the medium term, once growth revives, debt can be paid down and the financial sector curbed so that it does not inflict another crisis on the world.
In fact, Hamas made similar attempts to attack the Dimona complex in 2012, as did Iraq in 1991, with the aim of releasing the site's contents to inflict radiological damage on Israel's population.
Assad and his cohorts are encouraged by the world's failure to respond effectively to their brutal suppression of the revolt in Homs, and have proceeded to inflict vicious punishment on its survivors as a warning to opponents elsewhere.
But Western nations are in a weak position to make this response, because they inflict so much unnecessary suffering on animals.

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