Inflicting is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for INFLICTING in dictionary:

VERB:
• INFLICT, to impose on
• cause (something unpleasant or painful) to be suffered by someone or something
• impose something unwelcome on
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to cause to be endured; impose

Words related to INFLICTING

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How to use INFLICTING in a sentence

• Each time the Russians charged the enemy fled and the Russians followed up the Austrian retreat with shrapnel and quick fire, inflicting heavy losses.
• He afterwards defended the measure as inflicting no injury upon the manufacturers, and it never appeared to lessen the good will which his party bore him.
• It was only in extraordinary emergencies that the senate, with the consuls, assumed the responsibility of inflicting summary punishment.
• Sylvester forced him across the room, still inflicting punishment.
• Gabinius had injured Syria in many ways, even to the point of inflicting more damage upon the people than had the pirates, who were then in their prime.
• Many feared to suffer at the hands of another what in similar circumstances they were conscious of inflicting themselves.
• Henderson was a man who did not believe in inflicting punishment in the heat of passion.
• The young are so trained that when old they shall find their keenest pleasure in inflicting pain in its most appalling form.
• After inflicting the full number of lashes, the cords with which he was bound were loosed.
• This striking is the literal inflicting a blow on an individual, and does not mean merely the attack on a body of enemies.
• But such would be the case if Great Britain succeeded in inflicting a political and military defeat on Germany.
• Without inflicting some mortal injury on the soldiers, he could not have prevented them from pursuing him when he had fled, and probably firing on him as he did so.
• Here Alcibiades remained twenty days, obtaining large sums of money from the Cyzicenes, but otherwise inflicting no sort of mischief on the community.
• He was dragged and carried into four saloons like a helpless, good-natured bear cub, strong enough to resist by inflicting injuries, but somewhat amused by the game.
• Eager to revenge on the flying citizens the insults they had directed against his parents, he pursued the beaten militia for many a mile, inflicting terrible damage upon them.
• It costs some men nothing to be true, for they have none of those sensibilities which shrink from inflicting pain.
• This accident assisted in preventing this well known military man from inflicting such a blow on these savages, that they would have been long in recovering from it.
• The unlimited selfishness, the love of inflicting pain, the blood-thirstiness, thus kept active, he brings with him into the social state.
• While in his cell he attempted suicide by inflicting superficial cuts over the praecordium, wrists and calves of his legs with a piece of broken table knife.
• The unnatural excitement of the nervous system in the mother by such a cause cannot operate otherwise than by inflicting injury upon the tender germ in her womb.
• This would be inflicting a vital blow, indeed, on the inns of a country.
• This event took place, inflicting upon the Spanish people more indignity, disdain, and injury than the invasions by Napoleon had done.
• He felt he could not take it upon himself to run the chance of inflicting such misery upon the man.
• The cords were worn for several days, causing the whole body to swell very much and inflicting great pain.
• She knew not this, nor was Annie conscious how fearfully her plans had succeeded in inflicting pain.
• Though so useless in inflicting injuries, I may make bold however to rate myself as excellent at consolation.
• Possibly she would go on inflicting such pains again and again, and grieving for the sufferer again and again, in all her colossal inconsistency.
• No good can be accomplished, either to the individuals or to the reform, by inflicting these personalities upon future generations.

Similar words containing FLICT without suffix ing and without prefix in

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