inflict
Example Sentences
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A lower dollar brings mixed effects, boosting the competitiveness of US exporters but inflicting higher prices on cash-strapped consumers for imported goods.
From Barron's
Then last season, they inflicted the only Europa League group phase defeat on eventual champions Tottenham.
From BBC
Frederick Douglass and others were known to carry a supposedly magical root to protect them from violence inflicted by slaveholders.
"It's the stress, the nerves, the pressure, the lawlessness inflicted on you," that breaks families apart, he adds.
From BBC
“Statements of shared values still matter, but only when they are backed by the ability to say no without inflicting debilitating harm on oneself,” she said in a piece for Policy Magazine.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
