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inflict
verb as in impose something
Example Sentences
World champions South Africa humiliated woeful Wales by inflicting a record home defeat on their hosts.
Speaking at a conference on Monday, head of the Confederation of British Industry Rain Newton-Smith urged Reeves not to inflict "death by a thousand taxes" on businesses.
The audience has been steadily aging as well, feeling every ache that the decade between the show’s first season and the present has inflicted.
The Fed’s dovish turn and tighter liquidity have destabilized equity markets of late and inflicted real damage on returns.
Many cancer therapies work by inflicting deliberate DNA damage on tumor cells, and early drug development often requires precise measurements of how much damage a compound creates.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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