• IPA: /ɪnˈflɪkt/

inflict (inflicts, present participle inflicting; past and past participle inflicted)

1. To thrust upon; to impose.

   They inflicted terrible pains on her to obtain a confession.

   • 1937, Josephus; Ralph Marcus, transl., chapter VIII, in Josephus: With an English Translation (Loeb Classical Library), volume VI (Jewish Antiquities), London: William Heinemann Ltd.; Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, published 1958, OCLC 768288966 ↗, book IX, paragraph 1, page 87 ↗:

     Now Azaēlos, the king of Syria, made war on the Israelites and their king Jehu#English|Jehu, and ravaged the eastern parts of the country across the Jordan […] spreading fire everywhere and plundering everything and inflicting violence on all who fell into his hands.

• infliction

• French: infliger
• German: verhängen, zufügen
• Italian: infliggere
• Russian: наноси́ть
• Spanish: infligir