When you force an undesirable or harmful event on someone, you inflict it on them. You might prefer that someone inflict some physical pain on you rather than inflict you with the boredom of another trip to the annual flower show.
imp. & p. p.
of Inflict
Usage Examples
I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
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Other Usage ExamplesThe threat today is not that of the 1930s. It's not big powers going to war with each other. The ravages which fundamentalist political ideology inflicted on the 20th century are memories. The Cold war is over. Europe is at peace, if not always diplomatically.
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
Who has suffered? The families of the dead, no doubt. But a greater loss was inflicted on Pakistan because, as I said, we lost the pillars of our society.
My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.
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