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# infliction

«infliction» in Mova's school dictionary: **The act of causing pain, harm or a punishment to someone** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (infliction, an infliction)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (formal) The act of causing pain, harm or a punishment to someone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/infliction/#m1)

2) Something unpleasant that someone has to suffer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/infliction/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Used in formal writing, history and law: «the infliction of pain», «the infliction of punishment». In everyday talk people say «causing harm». It tells the reader that someone made another person suffer.

### examples

- The law forbids the infliction of cruelty on animals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/infliction/#x1)
- The infliction of pain is never a fair punishment. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/infliction/#x2)
- The judge spoke of the infliction of serious injury. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/infliction/#x3)
- The long wait was an infliction we had to bear. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/infliction/#x4)
- Teachers must not use the infliction of fear. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/infliction/#x5)

### note

Formal; quite rare. Verb: inflict (inflict pain on someone). Don't confuse with «inflection» (change in the voice or in a word ending).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «infliction» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/infliction/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.