inflict
verb (used with object)
to impose as something that must be borne or suffered.
inflicter
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a word derived from
inflict.
Example Sentences
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Bay: director, executive producer and chief inflicter behind the “Transformers” franchise.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 20, 2017
Mr. Scott said of Mr. Eavis: “He’s gone from being the demon, the inflicter of horrors on the countryside, to being everybody’s hero.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 26, 2015
But she was still too ignorant of life to know that it is commonly the inflicter of an injury who shows ill feeling, and not the recipient of it.
From Reels and Spindles A Story of Mill Life by Frank T. (Frank Thayer) Merrill
It is so easy to wound another’s feelings that sometimes the inflicter of so much pain hardly realises the anguish that he causes.
From The Triumph of Jill by F.E. Mills Young
I can offer no suggestion as to how the inflicter of the wound got in or out.
From The Big Bow Mystery by Israel Zangwill
