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English Dictionary: inflict by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
inflict
v
  1. impose something unpleasant; "The principal visited his rage on the students"
    Synonym(s): inflict, bring down, visit, impose
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Inflict \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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