infliction
inf lik shuhn
- n the act of imposing something (as a tax or an embargo)
- n an act causing pain or damage
- n something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness
he's not a friend, he's an infliction
- A 2007 study in the International Review of the Red Cross found that "the acute suffering produced during the immediate infliction of the submarino is superseded by the often .
- The list includes acts such as rape, murder and intentional infliction of bodily harm.
- This is to be brought home so vividly by the nature of the infliction of punishment that he will feel an inhibition against any attempt to commit new crimes.