About The Word Inflict

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Inflict

Inflict Meaning & Definition
Inflict Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Inflict?

[v] impose something unpleasant; "The principal visited his rage on the students"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Inflict: bring down | impose | visit

Related Terms | Find terms related to Inflict: accomplish | achieve | administer | afflict | apply | bring | bring about | bring off | bring to pass | bring upon | burden with | charge | commit | deal | deliver | demand | do | do to | effect | effectuate | enjoin | exact | expose | fasten upon | force | force upon | freight with | give | go and do | impose | impose on | impose upon | inflict on | inflict upon | lay | lay on | levy | make | pay | perpetrate | place | produce | pull off | put | put down | put on | put upon | realize | render | saddle with | set | strike | subject | subject to | take and do | task | tax | trouble | up and do | visit | visit upon | weight down with | wreak | wreck | yoke with

See Also | clamp | dictate | foist | give | intrude | obtrude | order | prescribe

Inflict In Webster's Dictionary

\In*flict"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Inflicted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Inflicting}.] [L. inflictus, p. p. of infligere to strike on, to inflict; pref. in- in, on + fligere to strike. Cf. {Flail}.] To give, cause, or produce by striking, or as if by striking; to apply forcibly; to lay or impose; to send; to cause to bear, feel, or suffer; as, to inflict blows; to inflict a wound with a dagger; to inflict severe pain by ingratitude; to inflict punishment on an offender; to inflict the penalty of death on a criminal. What heart could wish, what hand inflict, this dire disgrace? --Drygen. The persecution and the pain That man inflicts on infero-ior kinds. --Cowper.

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