'Inflict' definitions:
Definition of 'inflict'
From: WordNet
verb
Impose something unpleasant; "The principal visited his rage on the students" [syn: inflict, bring down, visit, impose]
Definition of 'Inflict'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- What heart could wish, what hand inflict, this dire disgrace? --Drygen. [1913 Webster]
- The persecution and the pain That man inflicts on all inferior kinds. --Cowper. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'inflict'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accomplish,
- achieve,
- administer,
- afflict,
- apply,
- bring,
- bring about,
- bring off,
- bring to pass,
- bring upon,
- burden with,
- charge,
- commit,
- deal,
- deliver,
- demand,
- do,
- do to,
- effect,
- effectuate,
- enjoin,
- exact,
- expose,
- fasten upon,
- force,
- force upon,
- freight with,
- give,
- go and do,
- impose,
- impose on,
- impose upon,
- inflict on,
- inflict upon,
- lay,
- lay on,
- levy,
- make,
- pay,
- perpetrate,
- place,
- produce,
- pull off,
- put,
- put down,
- put on,
- put upon,
- realize,
- render,
- saddle with,
- set,
- strike,
- subject,
- subject to,
- take and do,
- task,
- tax,
- trouble,
- up and do,
- visit,
- visit upon,
- weight down with,
- wreak,
- wreck,
- yoke with