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单词 infliction
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infliction in American English

(ɪnˈflɪkʃən)
noun
1. 
the act of inflicting
2. 
something inflicted, as punishment
Word origin
LL inflictio

Examples of 'infliction' in a sentence
infliction

Intentional infliction of emotional distress, the whole works.
Lisa Scottoline RUNNING FROM THE LAW (2001)
The deliberate infliction of pain is a repugnant practice that produces deeply suspect information.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
The writ is for libel, slander and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
The Sun (2010)
The more direct the infliction of harm, the more repugnant it feels.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
His proposals allowed 'infliction of a lesser harm to prevent a more serious harm'.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
That subparagraph contemplated a significantly greater degree of awareness of pleasure in the infliction of pain, suffering or humiliation.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
But the state also had a positive obligation to prevent the infliction of such treatment by third parties.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
But the appellants had intended and foreseen no more than the infliction of really serious injury.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
The infliction of such vast and indiscriminate destruction, difficult even to imagine, would by any standards be morally bankrupt.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The image of pain infliction is utterly repulsive, and the link with fashion here eludes me entirely.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
(noun) 
without the unnecessary or cruel infliction of pain
Synonyms
imposition
administration
perpetration
exaction (formal)

Additional synonyms

in the sense of exaction
Definition
a sum or payment exacted
Synonyms
demand,
contribution,
requirement,
squeeze (informal),
tribute,
oppression,
imposition,
compulsion,
extortion,
requisition,
shakedown (US, slang),
rapacity

Nearby words of
infliction

  • inflexibility
  • inflexible
  • inflict
  • infliction
  • influence
  • influential
  • influx

Synonyms of 'infliction'

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