inflict

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To make someone suffer something unpleasant.

   They inflicted terrible pain on her to force a confession.

Common collocations

• inflict pain Verb + noun

Borrowed from Latin īnflīctus, past participle of īnflīgō, from in- + flīgō (“strike”).

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