"inflict" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Threats of protectionism are meant not to inflict injury but to open markets for American goods.
- What do we tell them about this war that their country inflicted on them for no good reason whatsoever?
- The Austrians inflicted 1,800 casualties on their enemies for a loss of about 1,300 men.
- Rajani believed that God inflicted the pain upon him for the purification of his soul.
- These women disciplined the children by inflicting severe beatings for the most trivial reasons or no reason at all.
- She would inflict strong punishment for a moral slip, whether legal or not.
- And of the punishment she would inflict for the transgression.
- She could hardly inflict corporal punishment for a reasonable demand.
- Enraged, the teacher inflicted 25 cane strokes on him for defiance.
- They said the family's decision could inflict prolonged suffering for all involved.
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