Synonyms for inflict
ɪnˈflɪktin·flict

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1. inflict

   Synonyms:
   impose, put, lay on

   Antonyms:
   remove, alleviate, suspend, spare

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1. 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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1. inflictverb

   Synonyms:
   impose, lay on

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1. List of paraphrases for "inflict":

   impose, cause

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1. Thucydides:

   The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.

2. President Obama:

   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.

3. Thomas Alva Edison:

   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.

4. Niccolò Machiavelli:

   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.

5. Robert Morley:

   Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.