Vocabulary
Inflicted
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
To cause someone to experience or be
affected by sth unpleasant or harmful
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- The consequences of this ecological breakdown will be more destructive than any damage inflicted by the most advanced war machinery.
- It worked to deconstruct the narratives that had fuelled the persecution, recognising the damage these trials inflicted on both society and faith.
- The second is the utility of wide-ranging opening salvos, given the high premium on damage and terror inflicted in the earliest phases of a crisis or war.
- Ordinary people, on the other hand, are exhausted, partly from economic pressures and partly from the violence, or the threat of it, inflicted on them.
- What may be a factor in determining Tehran`s response is the extent of damage inflicted by the US bombing of Iran`s nuclear facilities.
Synonyms
impose, force, thrust
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