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inflicts

verb , present tense third-person singular of inflict

Synonyms and Antonyms of inflicts

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 inflicts

entails, forces, imposes, thrusts

begets, brings, brings about, brings on, creates, effectuates, generates, induces, invokes, makes, produces, prompts, results (in), spawns

fobs off, foists, palms, palms off, passes off, wishes

coerces, compels

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