Definition of infliction in English:

infliction

noun ɪnˈflɪkʃ(ə)nɪnˈflɪkʃən

mass noun

1The action of inflicting something unpleasant or painful on someone or something.
强加，施加
the repeated infliction of pain
不断施加痛苦。
Example sentencesExamples
- Its essence is the intentional infliction of severe pain or suffering by an official or by someone else with the consent or acquiescence of an official, and the maximum penalty is life imprisonment.
- That decision recognised a liability for intentional infliction of emotional distress - by its nature an indirect consequence of the defendant's act - which can for that reason be regarded as descended from the action on the case.
- Joy comes not out of infliction of pain on others but out of pain voluntarily borne by oneself.
- It tries to use crude epidemiological models like those used to study disease and applies them to the conscious infliction of violence by human beings.
- ‘We believe that the conduct of forcing a women to get an abortion falls into intentional infliction of emotional distress,’ Buckley said.
- The creation of memory, however, is no longer seen as having resulted from the public infliction of physical pain.
- It specifies that torture includes only intentional infliction of ‘severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental.’
- This provides an intellectual and quasi-moral cover for aggressive class warfare and infliction of pain on the weak.
- The deliberate infliction of severe pain on a member of the community of equals, either wantonly or for an alleged benefit to others, is regarded as torture, and is wrong.
- The RSPCA believes that current practices in angling do involve infliction of pain and suffering on fish.
- In terms of the egregious infliction of pain, it would seem that present practices in industrial farming constitute cruelty to animals and beg for regulative attention.
- The doctors said, your Honour, that these injuries would have caused really substantial pain at the time of their infliction.
- This wasn't some boredom induced vandalism, this was deliberate infliction of horrendous pain on one of the most harmless and appealing creatures there is.
- Physical abuse is the willful infliction of physical pain or injury, e.g., slapping, bruising, sexually molesting, or restraining.
- It had not been suggested by the appellant that there had been intentional infliction on him of pain by a public official.
- Perhaps, for instance, it's proper to derive satisfaction from deprivation of liberty but categorically improper to derive satisfaction from deprivation of life or infliction of physical pain.
- Eventually the Deputy Police Commissioner instructed his officers in writing to try to extract the information by means of infliction of pain under medical supervision and subject to prior warning.
- Jones undertakes to examine defamation and related ‘expressive transgressions’ such as invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
- There is, in my mind, something uniquely amoral and corrosive about this kind of coldblooded infliction of pain.
- Georgia, coined the phrase ‘unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain.’
Synonyms
inflicting, administering, administration, dealing out, meting out, serving out, delivering, application, applying
exaction, imposition, wreaking, perpetration
1. 1.1dated, informal count noun A nuisance.
  〈非正式，旧〉讨厌的人（或东西）
  what an infliction he must be!
  他必定是个十分讨厌的人！
  Example sentencesExamples
  Quite what the South Africans have done to warrant this infliction I'd better not speculate on.
  There are a number of people who can attest to this infliction I have.
  Athlete's foot is another common infliction, and is caused when the acid balance of the skin has become too alkaline.
  He, too, bore several inflictions, but if they bothered him it did not show.
  If readers thought that was a nefarious scheme, I apologize for any infliction it may have caused.
  Synonyms
  source of annoyance, source of irritation, annoyance, inconvenience, bore, bother, irritant, problem, difficulty, trouble, trial, burden

Rhymes

addiction, affliction, benediction, constriction, conviction, crucifixion, depiction, dereliction, diction, eviction, fiction, friction, interdiction, jurisdiction, malediction, restriction, transfixion, valediction

Definition of infliction in US English:

infliction

nouninˈflikSHənɪnˈflɪkʃən

1The action of inflicting something unpleasant or painful on someone or something.
强加，施加
the repeated infliction of pain
不断施加痛苦。
Example sentencesExamples
- That decision recognised a liability for intentional infliction of emotional distress - by its nature an indirect consequence of the defendant's act - which can for that reason be regarded as descended from the action on the case.
- The RSPCA believes that current practices in angling do involve infliction of pain and suffering on fish.
- Jones undertakes to examine defamation and related ‘expressive transgressions’ such as invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
- Joy comes not out of infliction of pain on others but out of pain voluntarily borne by oneself.
- It specifies that torture includes only intentional infliction of ‘severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental.’
- This provides an intellectual and quasi-moral cover for aggressive class warfare and infliction of pain on the weak.
- The creation of memory, however, is no longer seen as having resulted from the public infliction of physical pain.
- This wasn't some boredom induced vandalism, this was deliberate infliction of horrendous pain on one of the most harmless and appealing creatures there is.
- In terms of the egregious infliction of pain, it would seem that present practices in industrial farming constitute cruelty to animals and beg for regulative attention.
- The doctors said, your Honour, that these injuries would have caused really substantial pain at the time of their infliction.
- It had not been suggested by the appellant that there had been intentional infliction on him of pain by a public official.
- Perhaps, for instance, it's proper to derive satisfaction from deprivation of liberty but categorically improper to derive satisfaction from deprivation of life or infliction of physical pain.
- Eventually the Deputy Police Commissioner instructed his officers in writing to try to extract the information by means of infliction of pain under medical supervision and subject to prior warning.
- The deliberate infliction of severe pain on a member of the community of equals, either wantonly or for an alleged benefit to others, is regarded as torture, and is wrong.
- ‘We believe that the conduct of forcing a women to get an abortion falls into intentional infliction of emotional distress,’ Buckley said.
- Physical abuse is the willful infliction of physical pain or injury, e.g., slapping, bruising, sexually molesting, or restraining.
- There is, in my mind, something uniquely amoral and corrosive about this kind of coldblooded infliction of pain.
- Its essence is the intentional infliction of severe pain or suffering by an official or by someone else with the consent or acquiescence of an official, and the maximum penalty is life imprisonment.
- It tries to use crude epidemiological models like those used to study disease and applies them to the conscious infliction of violence by human beings.
- Georgia, coined the phrase ‘unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain.’
Synonyms
inflicting, administering, administration, dealing out, meting out, serving out, delivering, application, applying
1. 1.1dated, informal A nuisance.
  〈非正式，旧〉讨厌的人（或东西）
  what an infliction he must be!
  他必定是个十分讨厌的人！
  Example sentencesExamples
  If readers thought that was a nefarious scheme, I apologize for any infliction it may have caused.
  Athlete's foot is another common infliction, and is caused when the acid balance of the skin has become too alkaline.
  He, too, bore several inflictions, but if they bothered him it did not show.
  There are a number of people who can attest to this infliction I have.
  Quite what the South Africans have done to warrant this infliction I'd better not speculate on.
  Synonyms
  source of annoyance, source of irritation, annoyance, inconvenience, bore, bother, irritant, problem, difficulty, trouble, trial, burden

单词	infliction
释义	Definition of infliction in English: infliction noun ɪnˈflɪkʃ(ə)nɪnˈflɪkʃən mass noun 1The action of inflicting something unpleasant or painful on someone or something. 强加，施加 the repeated infliction of pain 不断施加痛苦。 Example sentencesExamples Its essence is the intentional infliction of severe pain or suffering by an official or by someone else with the consent or acquiescence of an official, and the maximum penalty is life imprisonment. That decision recognised a liability for intentional infliction of emotional distress - by its nature an indirect consequence of the defendant's act - which can for that reason be regarded as descended from the action on the case. Joy comes not out of infliction of pain on others but out of pain voluntarily borne by oneself. It tries to use crude epidemiological models like those used to study disease and applies them to the conscious infliction of violence by human beings. ‘We believe that the conduct of forcing a women to get an abortion falls into intentional infliction of emotional distress,’ Buckley said. The creation of memory, however, is no longer seen as having resulted from the public infliction of physical pain. It specifies that torture includes only intentional infliction of ‘severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental.’ This provides an intellectual and quasi-moral cover for aggressive class warfare and infliction of pain on the weak. The deliberate infliction of severe pain on a member of the community of equals, either wantonly or for an alleged benefit to others, is regarded as torture, and is wrong. The RSPCA believes that current practices in angling do involve infliction of pain and suffering on fish. In terms of the egregious infliction of pain, it would seem that present practices in industrial farming constitute cruelty to animals and beg for regulative attention. The doctors said, your Honour, that these injuries would have caused really substantial pain at the time of their infliction. This wasn't some boredom induced vandalism, this was deliberate infliction of horrendous pain on one of the most harmless and appealing creatures there is. Physical abuse is the willful infliction of physical pain or injury, e.g., slapping, bruising, sexually molesting, or restraining. It had not been suggested by the appellant that there had been intentional infliction on him of pain by a public official. Perhaps, for instance, it's proper to derive satisfaction from deprivation of liberty but categorically improper to derive satisfaction from deprivation of life or infliction of physical pain. Eventually the Deputy Police Commissioner instructed his officers in writing to try to extract the information by means of infliction of pain under medical supervision and subject to prior warning. Jones undertakes to examine defamation and related ‘expressive transgressions’ such as invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of emotional distress. There is, in my mind, something uniquely amoral and corrosive about this kind of coldblooded infliction of pain. Georgia, coined the phrase ‘unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain.’ Synonyms inflicting, administering, administration, dealing out, meting out, serving out, delivering, application, applying exaction, imposition, wreaking, perpetration 1.1dated, informal count noun A nuisance. 〈非正式，旧〉讨厌的人（或东西） what an infliction he must be! 他必定是个十分讨厌的人！ Example sentencesExamples Quite what the South Africans have done to warrant this infliction I'd better not speculate on. There are a number of people who can attest to this infliction I have. Athlete's foot is another common infliction, and is caused when the acid balance of the skin has become too alkaline. He, too, bore several inflictions, but if they bothered him it did not show. If readers thought that was a nefarious scheme, I apologize for any infliction it may have caused. Synonyms source of annoyance, source of irritation, annoyance, inconvenience, bore, bother, irritant, problem, difficulty, trouble, trial, burden Rhymes addiction, affliction, benediction, constriction, conviction, crucifixion, depiction, dereliction, diction, eviction, fiction, friction, interdiction, jurisdiction, malediction, restriction, transfixion, valediction Definition of infliction in US English: infliction nouninˈflikSHənɪnˈflɪkʃən 1The action of inflicting something unpleasant or painful on someone or something. 强加，施加 the repeated infliction of pain 不断施加痛苦。 Example sentencesExamples That decision recognised a liability for intentional infliction of emotional distress - by its nature an indirect consequence of the defendant's act - which can for that reason be regarded as descended from the action on the case. The RSPCA believes that current practices in angling do involve infliction of pain and suffering on fish. Jones undertakes to examine defamation and related ‘expressive transgressions’ such as invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of emotional distress. Joy comes not out of infliction of pain on others but out of pain voluntarily borne by oneself. It specifies that torture includes only intentional infliction of ‘severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental.’ This provides an intellectual and quasi-moral cover for aggressive class warfare and infliction of pain on the weak. The creation of memory, however, is no longer seen as having resulted from the public infliction of physical pain. This wasn't some boredom induced vandalism, this was deliberate infliction of horrendous pain on one of the most harmless and appealing creatures there is. In terms of the egregious infliction of pain, it would seem that present practices in industrial farming constitute cruelty to animals and beg for regulative attention. The doctors said, your Honour, that these injuries would have caused really substantial pain at the time of their infliction. It had not been suggested by the appellant that there had been intentional infliction on him of pain by a public official. Perhaps, for instance, it's proper to derive satisfaction from deprivation of liberty but categorically improper to derive satisfaction from deprivation of life or infliction of physical pain. Eventually the Deputy Police Commissioner instructed his officers in writing to try to extract the information by means of infliction of pain under medical supervision and subject to prior warning. The deliberate infliction of severe pain on a member of the community of equals, either wantonly or for an alleged benefit to others, is regarded as torture, and is wrong. ‘We believe that the conduct of forcing a women to get an abortion falls into intentional infliction of emotional distress,’ Buckley said. Physical abuse is the willful infliction of physical pain or injury, e.g., slapping, bruising, sexually molesting, or restraining. There is, in my mind, something uniquely amoral and corrosive about this kind of coldblooded infliction of pain. Its essence is the intentional infliction of severe pain or suffering by an official or by someone else with the consent or acquiescence of an official, and the maximum penalty is life imprisonment. It tries to use crude epidemiological models like those used to study disease and applies them to the conscious infliction of violence by human beings. Georgia, coined the phrase ‘unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain.’ Synonyms inflicting, administering, administration, dealing out, meting out, serving out, delivering, application, applying 1.1dated, informal A nuisance. 〈非正式，旧〉讨厌的人（或东西） what an infliction he must be! 他必定是个十分讨厌的人！ Example sentencesExamples If readers thought that was a nefarious scheme, I apologize for any infliction it may have caused. Athlete's foot is another common infliction, and is caused when the acid balance of the skin has become too alkaline. He, too, bore several inflictions, but if they bothered him it did not show. There are a number of people who can attest to this infliction I have. Quite what the South Africans have done to warrant this infliction I'd better not speculate on. Synonyms source of annoyance, source of irritation, annoyance, inconvenience, bore, bother, irritant, problem, difficulty, trouble, trial, burden
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