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Synonyms for inflict
ɪnˈflɪktin·flict
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Princeton's WordNet
inflict, bring down, visit, imposeverb
impose something unpleasant
"The principal visited his rage on the students"
Synonyms:
chitchat, land, bring down, confab, overthrow, enforce, inspect, impose, trim down, overturn, lower, get down, call in, cut, jaw, chit-chat, claver, trim back, trim, see, chew the fat, cut down, call, reduce, levy, natter, gossip, travel to, subvert, visit, take down, cut back, put down, shoot the breeze, confabulate, let down, chat, chatter, chaffer
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Inflict vs. Afflict -- In this Grammar.com article you will learn the differences between the words Inflict and Afflict.
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#64 | see | |
#374 | call | |
#399 | visit | |
#679 | put | |
#773 | land | |
#962 | chat | |
#1104 | lower | |
#1223 | cause | |
#1324 | cut | |
#2036 | reduce | |
#5998 | trim | |
#9152 | gossip | |
#9288 | levy | |
#9781 | impose | |
#10166 | enforce | |
#13099 | inspect | |
#14387 | jaw | |
#18842 | chatter | |
#27471 | overthrow | |
#34028 | inflict | |
#34999 | overturn | |
#51579 | subvert | |
#101001 | chitchat | |
#122207 | natter | |
#122461 | confab | |
#189313 | claver | |
#319135 | chaffer |
How to use inflict in a sentence?
The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.
Just as we're all connected like never before, we have to work together like never before, both to seize opportunities but also meet the challenges of this information age, it's one of the great paradoxes of our time that the very technologies that empower us to do great good can also be used to undermine us and inflict great harm.
There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
It should be noted that when he seizes a state the new ruler ought to determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He should inflict them once and for all, and not have to renew them every day.
Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.
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