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INFLICT

Pronunciation (US):

• INFLICT (verb)
The verb INFLICT has 1 sense:

1. impose something unpleasant

Familiarity information: INFLICT used as a verb is very rare.

• INFLICT (verb)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Impose something unpleasant

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

inflict; impose; bring down; visit

Context example:

The principal visited his rage on the students

Hypernyms (to "inflict" is one way to...):

communicate; intercommunicate (transmit thoughts or feelings)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "inflict"):

dictate; order; prescribe (issue commands or orders for)

intrude; obtrude (thrust oneself in as if by force)

clamp (impose or inflict forcefully)

give (inflict as a punishment)

foist (to force onto another)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something on somebody

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(English proverb)
"If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies in yourself."
(Native American proverb, Minquass)
"Protect your brother's privacy for what he knows of you."
(Arabic proverb)
"Using a cannon to shoot a mosquito."
(Dutch proverb)

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