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.