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inflict someone (up)on someone

to burden someone with the care or keeping of someone else. (Upon is formal and less commonly used than on.) Please don't inflict Bob upon me. My brother inflicted his children on us for the weekend. Well, I certainly don't want to inflict myself on you for the weekend, but I do need a place to stay.

inflict something (up)on someone or something

to impose something, such as pain, a burden, a problem, etc., on someone or something. (Upon is formal and less commonly used than on.) I hate to inflict an additional burden upon you, but someone has to clean the oven. Please don't inflict that on me.

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I am in search of a man who has done me the cruelest wrong that one human creature can inflict on another. I Say No by Collins, Wilkie View in context The poor youth was so terrified he did not know what to do, for he was in mortal dread of the punishment the wicked old Fairy would inflict on him. The Yellow Fairy Book by Lang, Andrew View in context He knew what a shock he would inflict on his father and mother by the news of this loss, he knew what a relief it would be to escape it all, and felt that Dolokhov knew that he could save him from all this shame and sorrow, but wanted now to play with him as a cat does with a mouse. War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context			inculcate inculcate in inculcate with incumbent to do indeed indemnify against indian indicate indicate to indication indict for indoctrinate indoctrinate into indoctrinate with induce labor in induct into indulge indulge in indulge with infatuated with infect with infer from infested with infiltrate into inflate with inflict on influence inform inform about inform of inform on information infringe on infuse infuse into infuse with ingratiate ingratiate oneself into ingratiate oneself with inherit from inhibit from doing initiate into inject into ink ink in inkling inlay with innocent innocent as a lamb inoculate inoculate against			inflexibleness inflexibly inflexibly inflexion inflexion inflexion inflexion Inflexion point Inflexion point Inflexion point inflexional inflexional inflexional inflexional Inflexions Inflexions Inflexions Inflexions Inflexive Inflexure INFLIBNET inflict inflict inflict inflict a penalty inflict a penalty on inflict a penalty upon inflict capital punishment inflict harm inflict injury inflict on inflict pain on inflict penalty inflict penance upon inflict punishment inflicted inflicted inflicted on inflicted on inflicter inflicter inflicters inflicters inflicting inflicting inflicting on inflicting on infliction infliction infliction of pain inflictions inflictions inflictive inflictive inflictor inflictor inflictors inflictors inflicts inflicts inflicts on

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