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to inflict
01
to cause or impose something unpleasant, harmful, or unwelcome upon someone or something
Transitive: to inflict something unpleasant on sb
Grammatical Information
Action verb
Regular
Present tense
inflict
3rd person singular
inflicts
Past simple
inflicted
Past participle
inflicted
Examples
The hurricane inflicted significant damage on the coastal town.
Lexical Tree
infliction
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