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infliction
Found in thesaurus: enforcement, wrongful conduct, actus reus, misconduct, wrongdoing, negative stimulus
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infliction
n.
act of imposing or meting out (punishment, etc.); act of causing something unpleasant (suffering, etc.); something inflicted (suffering, etc.)
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infliction
Noun
1. the act of imposing something (as a tax or an embargo)
(synonym) imposition
(hypernym) enforcement
(hyponym) protection, trade protection
(classification) tax, taxation, revenue enhancement
2. an act causing pain or damage
(hypernym) wrongdoing, wrongful conduct, misconduct, actus reus
(derivation) inflict, bring down, visit, impose
3. something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness; "washing dishes was a nuisance before we got a dish washer"; "a bit of a bother"; "he's not a friend, he's an infliction"
(synonym) annoyance, bother, botheration, pain, pain in the neck, pain in the ass
(hypernym) negative stimulus
(hyponym) nuisance
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Infliction
(n.)
The act of inflicting or imposing; as, the infliction of torment, or of punishment.
The act of inflicting or imposing; as, the infliction of torment, or of punishment.
(n.)
That which is inflicted or imposed, as punishment, disgrace, calamity, etc.
That which is inflicted or imposed, as punishment, disgrace, calamity, etc.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. About
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infliction
Synonyms and related words:
affliction, bane, bitter cup, bitter draft, bitter draught, bitter pill, bother, bugbear, burden, burden of care, burdening, calamity, cankerworm of care, care, castigation, charging, chastening, chastisement, condign punishment, correction, cross, crown of thorns, crushing burden, curse, death, demand, deserts, destruction, disciplinary measures, discipline, disease, distress, encumbrance, evil, exaction, ferule, freighting, gall, gall and wormwood, grievance, harm, imposing an onus, imposition, inconsiderateness, inconvenience, judgment, judicial punishment, laying on, load, loading, loading down, nemesis, obtrusiveness, open wound, oppression, pack of troubles, pains, pains and punishments, pay, payment, peck of troubles, penal retribution, penalty, penology, pest, pestilence, plague, presumptuousness, punishment, punition, retribution, retributive justice, running sore, scourge, sea of troubles, sorrow, tasking, taxing, thorn, torment, trouble, unwarranted demand, vexation, visitation, waters of bitterness, weight, weighting, well-deserved punishment, what-for, woe
affliction, bane, bitter cup, bitter draft, bitter draught, bitter pill, bother, bugbear, burden, burden of care, burdening, calamity, cankerworm of care, care, castigation, charging, chastening, chastisement, condign punishment, correction, cross, crown of thorns, crushing burden, curse, death, demand, deserts, destruction, disciplinary measures, discipline, disease, distress, encumbrance, evil, exaction, ferule, freighting, gall, gall and wormwood, grievance, harm, imposing an onus, imposition, inconsiderateness, inconvenience, judgment, judicial punishment, laying on, load, loading, loading down, nemesis, obtrusiveness, open wound, oppression, pack of troubles, pains, pains and punishments, pay, payment, peck of troubles, penal retribution, penalty, penology, pest, pestilence, plague, presumptuousness, punishment, punition, retribution, retributive justice, running sore, scourge, sea of troubles, sorrow, tasking, taxing, thorn, torment, trouble, unwarranted demand, vexation, visitation, waters of bitterness, weight, weighting, well-deserved punishment, what-for, woe
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
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infliction
infliction /in'flikʃn/
- danh từ
- sự nện, sự giáng (đòn); sự gây ra (vết thương)
- sự bắt phải chịu (sự trừng phạt, thuế, sự tổn thương...)
- tai ương; điều phiền toái (bắt phải chịu...)
- sự nện, sự giáng (đòn); sự gây ra (vết thương)
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