inflict
/ɪnˈflɪkt/ verb C1- To thrust upon; to impose. · They inflicted terrible pains on her to obtain a confession.· The enemy's artillery inflicted heavy casualties on the enemy forces.
He/she/it inflicts · Past inflicted · Past participle inflicted · -ing form inflicting
Verb forms
- Base form
- inflict
- He/she/it
- inflicts
- Past
- inflicted
- Past participle
- inflicted
- -ing form
- inflicting
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“By the help of his eyes, which are still full of life, and, as you perceive, possess the power of inflicting mortal injury.”
The Snake was quickly revived by the warmth, and resuming its natural instincts, bit its benefactor, inflicting on him a mortal wound.
A SNAKE, having made his hole close to the porch of a cottage, inflicted a mortal bite on the Cottager’s infant son.
I know not, sir, when I got this habit of yawning, nor whether these attacks of howling were inflicted on me as a judgment for my crimes, or for any other cause; but this I do know, that when I yawn for the third time, I actually turn into a wolf and attack men.” With this speech he commenced a second fit of yawning and again howled like a wolf, as he had at first.
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