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inflict

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of inflict

to cause someone to accept or experience something unwanted

The criminal inflicted a lifetime of distress on his unsuspecting victims.

Synonyms and Near Synonyms of inflict

entail, force, impose, thrust

beget, bring, bring about, bring on, create, effectuate, generate, induce, invoke, make, produce, prompt, result (in), spawn

fob off, foist, palm, palm off, pass off, wish

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