inflict
- to impose as something that must be borne or suffered: to inflict punishment.
- to impose (anything unwelcome): The regime inflicted burdensome taxes on the people.
- to deal or deliver, as a blow.
Origin of inflict
Related Words for inflicting
levy, expose, exact, wreak, extort, force, give, visit, require, deliver, administer, command, dispense, strike, apply, subjectExamples from the Web for inflicting
Contemporary Examples of inflicting
It is also memories like these that make it easier to write scenes of inflicting pain upon male perpetrators.
Nitehawk Shorts Festival: ‘Brute,’ a Twisted Take on Playing in the DarkJulia Grinberg
November 28, 2014
So far, neither America nor Europe has shown much disposition to bear the inevitable costs of inflicting pain on Russia.
Gómez and Barros have been charged with forced slavery, inflicting bodily harm on a child and false imprisonment.
Argentinian Teen Was Starved and Held Captive With a Canine For 9 YearsBarbie Latza Nadeau
April 17, 2014
Perhaps we factor in what exactly we are inflicting on people with “pack and stack” strategies.
Firearms, after all, are inanimate objects, incapable of inflicting harm on their own initiative.
Historical Examples of inflicting
And in many cases they succeed in inflicting a good deal of pain.
Richling, in the self-occupation of a lover, forgot what pains he might be inflicting.
Dr. SevierGeorge W. Cable
I ask pardon for inflicting something like a sermon upon you.
Roland CashelCharles James Lever
You are too generous to give pain: spare me, then, the suffering of inflicting it on you.
Roland CashelCharles James Lever
And Andrea then fully realised the pain he was inflicting on this man's soul.
The Child of PleasureGabriele D'Annunzio
inflict
- (often foll by on or upon) to impose (something unwelcome, such as pain, oneself, etc)
- rare to cause to suffer; afflict (with)
- to deal out (blows, lashes, etc)