亚洲网紅露点

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inflict

[ in-flikt ]

verb (used with object)

  1. to impose as something that must be borne or suffered:

    to inflict punishment.

  2. to impose (anything unwelcome):

    The regime inflicted burdensome taxes on the people.

  3. to deal or deliver, as a blow.


inflict

/ 瑟苍藞蹿濒瑟办迟 /

verb

  1. often foll byon or upon to impose (something unwelcome, such as pain, oneself, etc)
  2. rare.
    to cause to suffer; afflict (with)
  3. to deal out (blows, lashes, etc)
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • 颈苍藞蹿濒颈肠迟颈辞苍, noun
  • 颈苍藞蹿濒颈肠迟别谤, noun
  • 颈苍藞蹿濒颈肠迟颈惫别, adjective
  • 颈苍藞蹿濒颈肠迟补产濒别, adjective
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 颈苍路蹿濒颈肠迟顎僡路产濒别 adjective
  • 颈苍路蹿濒颈肠迟顎侥谤 颈苍路蹿濒颈肠顎僼辞谤 noun
  • 颈苍路蹿濒颈肠顎僼颈惫别 adjective
  • 辫谤别顎卛苍路蹿濒颈肠迟顎 verb (used with object)
  • 耻苍顎卛苍路蹿濒颈肠迟顎侥诲 adjective
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of inflict1

First recorded in 1520鈥30; from Latin 颈苍蹿濒墨肠迟耻蝉, past participle of 颈苍蹿濒墨驳别谤别 鈥渢o strike or dash against,鈥 equivalent to in- 鈥渋n鈥 + 蹿濒墨驳- (stem of 蹿濒墨驳别谤别 鈥渢o beat down鈥) + -tus past participle suffix; in- 2
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of inflict1

C16: from Latin 颈苍蹿濒墨驳别谤别 to strike (something) against, dash against, from 蹿濒墨驳别谤别 to strike
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But the lesson for Americans couldn鈥檛 be clearer, even at a moment when the domestic carnage inflicted by the Trump regime feels limitless and irreparable.

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Putin felt he was righting a wrong inflicted on Russia when Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev transferred Crimea to Ukraine in 1954.

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The pain Trump is inflicting now, I fear, will serve no real purpose at all.

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鈥淢edicine River: A Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools鈥 is an important work in the growing literature about the trauma those boarding schools inflicted on generations of Native peoples.

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Canada's government has previously said its position is to implement "dollar-for-dollar" tariffs with the aim of inflicting maximum pain on the US economy.

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