Inflicting
[in'fliktɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inflict
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Examples
- Carroll, of Gibbon's division, moved at a double quick with his brigade and drove back the enemy, inflicting great loss. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- You may wonder, I went on, how the event of your daughter's death can have been made the means of inflicting injury on another person. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- But he saw her long gentle face puckering into tears, and felt ashamed of the useless pain he was inflicting. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Your daughter's death has been made the pretext for inflicting serious injury on a person who is very dear to me. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- As I had lunged I had turned so that his sword merely passed beneath the muscles, inflicting a painful but not dangerous wound. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- This he did with great vigor, inflicting heavy losses on the National side, but suffering much heavier on his own. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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