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
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 Young, F.E. Mills
The inflicter of suffering and the sufferer are one.
From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Schopenhauer, Arthur
No suffering, nor inflicter of suffering, can reach the peace of the sufferer without his own consent.
From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 by Bunyan, John
