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What does inflict mean?

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Verb
  1. To thrust upon; to impose.
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I've never met him, but I'd love to inflict some of the woe he's put upon her onto his cowardly little mind.
We are simply asked to contemplate the appalling act and the nightmare that one loathsome human being can inflict on an innocent bystander.
Let me be on record as being strongly opposed to sending Limbaugh up the river, even though that is the penalty he wished to inflict on others.
Terrorist bombings ruin a building, many lives and inflict trauma on the witnesses.
The goal of the rubber bullet is to inflict the right amount of pain to cause the threat to decease charging, or to disperse a crowd.
Fowler's flicks do not always come off, but when they do, they inflict damage.

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