Infliction

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The act or process of imposing or meting out something unpleasant.
  • n. Something, such as punishment, that is inflicted.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The act of inflicting or something inflicted; an imposition
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of inflicting or imposing.
  • n. That which is inflicted or imposed, as punishment, disgrace, calamity, etc.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of inflicting or imposing: as, the infliction of punishment.
  • n. That which is inflicted; suffering or punishment imposed.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the act of imposing something (as a tax or an embargo)
  • n. something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness
  • n. an act causing pain or damage
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