Crossword-Solution: INFLICT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Inflict | v. t. | To give, cause, or produce by striking, or as if by striking; to apply forcibly; to lay or impose; to send; to cause to bear, feel, or suffer; as, to inflict blows; to inflict a wound with a dagger; to inflict severe pain by ingratitude; to inflict punishment on an offender; to inflict the penalty of death on a criminal. |
We have 36 clues for the answer “INFLICT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| The principal visited his rage on the students | 1 answer |
| Imposing something unwelcome on | 1 answer |
| Impose, as a punishment | 1 answer |
| Impose a penalty. | 1 answer |
| Deal, as a blow | 1 answer |
| Cause, as an injury | 1 answer |
| Change the voice in tone | 1 answer |
| FORCE on | 2 answers |
| Deal a blow | 2 answers |
| Force (upon) | 5 answers |
| Impose upon | 6 answers |
| Impose (on) | 9 answers |
| make infirm | 15 answers |
| cause injury | 17 answers |
| cause bodily pain | 17 answers |
| cause harm | 18 answers |
| Harmed | 20 answers |
| material injury | 24 answers |
| wounded | 24 answers |
| cause pain | 26 answers |
| commit | 30 answers |
| Soreness | 30 answers |
| Cancerous | 30 answers |
| Visit | 36 answers |
| dictate | 41 answers |
| Govern | 41 answers |
| Administer. | 44 answers |
| Impose | 44 answers |
| Wound | 46 answers |
| Cramp | 47 answers |
| Damage | 59 answers |
| Vent | 60 answers |
| Wreck | 66 answers |
| Hurt | 67 answers |
| Harm | 77 answers |
| Strike | 102 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REAET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with INFLICT (5)
Hyde in danger of his life was a creature new to me; shaken with inordinate anger, strung to the pitch of murder, lusting to inflict pain.
Hepzibah had little hardihood for her own proper pain, and far less for what she must inflict on Clifford.
What happens when Betty- Jean doesn't trust her appliances any more? The return line at Sears will be a week long." I asked the Spook how this was possible? How could he inflict such damage without anyone noticing? His answer is as indicting as is his guilt.
They were even picturing the various tortures they would inflict, and gloating over the suffering of the Manyuema, for whom they entertained a peculiar hatred, when Tarzan put his foot down flatly upon the plan.
Above all, he had upon his side the unyielding obstinacy of his nation, and that unbending resolution, with which Israelites have been frequently known to submit to the uttermost evils which power and violence can inflict upon them, rather than gratify their oppressors by granting their demands.
Quotes with INFLICT (3)
You teach me now how cruel you've been - cruel and false. Why did you despise me? Why did you betray your own heart, Cathy? I have not one word of comfort. You deserve this. You have killed yourself. Yes, you may kiss me, and cry; and wring out my kisses and tears: they'll blight you - they'll damn you. You loved me - what right had you to leave me? What right - answer me - for the poor fancy you felt for Linton? Because misery, and degradation, and death, and nothing that Go…
Because misery, and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have parted us, you, of your own will did it. I have no broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine. So much the worse for me that I am strong.
When you live your life by poor standards, you inflict damage on everyone who crosses your path, especially those you love.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, New Yorker, NYT, WSJ.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1952–2023).