About The Word Infliction

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Infliction

Infliction Meaning & Definition
Infliction Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Infliction?

[n] an act causing pain or damage
[n] the act of imposing something (as a tax or an embargo)
[n] something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness; "washing dishes was a nuisance before we got a dish washer"; "a bit of a bother"; "he's not a friend, he's an infliction"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Infliction: annoyance | bother | botheration | imposition | pain | pain in the ass | pain in the neck

Related Terms | Find terms related to Infliction: affliction | bane | bitter cup | bitter draft | bitter draught | bitter pill | bother | bugbear | burden | burden of care | burdening | calamity | cankerworm of care | care | castigation | charging | chastening | chastisement | condign punishment | correction | cross | crown of thorns | crushing burden | curse | death | demand | deserts | destruction | disciplinary measures | discipline | disease | distress | encumbrance | evil | exaction | ferule | freighting | gall | gall and wormwood | grievance | harm | imposing an onus | imposition | inconsiderateness | inconvenience | judgment | judicial punishment | laying on | load | loading | loading down | nemesis | obtrusiveness | open wound | oppression | pack of troubles | pains | pains and punishments | pay | payment | peck of troubles | penal retribution | penalty | penology | pest | pestilence | plague | presumptuousness | punishment | punition | retribution | retributive justice | running sore | scourge | sea of troubles | sorrow | tasking | taxing | thorn | torment | trouble | unwarranted demand | vexation | visitation | waters of bitterness | weight | weighting | well-deserved punishment | what-for | woe

See Also | actus reus | enforcement | irritant | misconduct | negative stimulus | nuisance | plague | protection | regimentation | reimposition | taxation | thorn | trade protection | wrongdoing | wrongful conduct

Infliction In Webster's Dictionary

\In*flic"tion\, n. [L. inflictio: cf. F. infliction.] 1. The act of inflicting or imposing; as, the infliction of torment, or of punishment. 2. That which is inflicted or imposed, as punishment, disgrace, calamity, etc. His severest inflictions are in themselves acts of justice and righteousness. --Rogers.

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