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Definition of inflict

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Inflict (v. t.) To give, cause, or produce by striking, or as if by striking; to apply forcibly; to lay or impose; to send; to cause to bear, feel, or suffer; as, to inflict blows; to inflict a wound with a dagger; to inflict severe pain by ingratitude; to inflict punishment on an offender; to inflict the penalty of death on a criminal..

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Chastise :: Chastise (v. t.) To inflict pain upon, by means of stripes, or in any other manner, for the purpose of punishment or reformation; to punish, as with stripes..

Inflicter :: Inflicter (n.) One who inflicts.

Inflict :: Inflict (v. t.) To give, cause, or produce by striking, or as if by striking; to apply forcibly; to lay or impose; to send; to cause to bear, feel, or suffer; as, to inflict blows; to inflict a wound with a dagger; to inflict severe pain by ingratitude; to inflict punishment on an offender; to inflict the penalty of death on a criminal..

Stingless :: Stinging (a.) Piercing, or capable of piercing, with a sting; inflicting acute pain as if with a sting, goad, or pointed weapon; pungent; biting; as, stinging cold; a stinging rebuke..

Inflicting :: Inflicting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inflic.

Lynch Law :: Lynch law () The act or practice by private persons of inflicting punishment for crimes or offenses, without due process of law..

Blow :: Blow (n.) The infliction of evil; a sudden calamity; something which produces mental, physical, or financial suffering or loss (esp. when sudden); a buffet..

Excruciation :: Excruciation (n.) The act of inflicting agonizing pain, or the state of being thus afflicted; that which excruciates; torture..

Discipline :: Discipline (n.) Correction; chastisement; punishment inflicted by way of correction and training.

Self-torture :: Self-torture (n.) The act of inflicting pain on one's self; pain inflicted on one's self.

Chastisement :: Chastisement (n.) The act of chastising; pain inflicted for punishment and correction; discipline; punishment.

Mortification :: Mortification (n.) Subjection of the passions and appetites, by penance, absistence, or painful severities inflicted on the body..

Scourge :: Scourge (n.) A lash; a strap or cord; especially, a lash used to inflict pain or punishment; an instrument of punishment or discipline; a whip..

Execution :: Execution (n.) A putting to death as a legal penalty; death lawfully inflicted; as, the execution of a murderer..

Centesimation :: Centesimation (n.) The infliction of the death penalty upon one person in every hundred, as in cases of mutiny..

Punishment :: Punishment (n.) Any pain, suffering, or loss inflicted on a person because of a crime or offense..

Torment :: Torment (v. t.) To put to extreme pain or anguish; to inflict excruciating misery upon, either of body or mind; to torture..

Revenge :: Revenge (v. t.) To inflict harm in return for, as an injury, insult, etc.; to exact satisfaction for, under a sense of injury; to avenge; -- followed either by the wrong received, or by the person or thing wronged, as the object, or by the reciprocal pronoun as direct object, and a preposition before the wrong done or the wrongdoer..

Chasten :: Chasten (v. t.) To correct by punishment; to inflict pain upon the purpose of reclaiming; to discipline; as, to chasten a son with a rod..

Persecution :: Persecution (n.) The act or practice of persecuting; especially, the infliction of loss, pain, or death for adherence to a particular creed or mode of worship..