inflict harm

Frequency: 7.07.1 per million words

to force someone to experience something unpleasant

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Examples (10)

  • He was clearly intent on inflicting serious harm on someone.
  • The new policy could inflict economic harm on small businesses.
  • Cyberbullies often inflict psychological harm without realizing the consequences.
  • The dictator's regime inflicted untold harm upon its own people for decades.
  • A cornered animal will fight back to inflict harm on its attacker.
  • Why would anyone want to inflict harm on innocent creatures?
  • The goal of the sanctions is not to inflict harm on the general population.
  • The court found that the company had knowingly inflicted environmental harm.
  • Spreading malicious rumors is a way to inflict reputational harm.
  • He felt a deep sense of guilt for the emotional harm he had inflicted.