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v. To deal or mete out (something punishing or burdensome); impose: inflicted heavy losses on the enemy; a storm that inflicted widespread damage.

v. To afflict.

v. To thrust upon; to impose.

v. 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

To lay on or impose as something that must be borne or suffered; cause to be suffered: as, to inflict punishment on offenders; to inflict a penalty on transgressors.

v. impose something unpleasant

"The justification that journalists can offer for the harm they inevitably inflict is to show, through their actions, their understanding that what they do matters and that it should be done with care."

inflicted    inflicting    inflicts   

communicate    intercommunicate   

dictate    foist    obtrude    order    clamp    give    prescribe    intrude   

inflicted    inflicting   

send    administer    do to    dot    give    lay    impose    bring    land   

addict    afflict    clicked    conflict    constrict    contradict    convict    depict    evict    handpicked   

nonhostile    established    nonbattle    well-acquainted    hag-ridden    coupla    noncombatant    death-bringing    self-refuting    themain