English-Italian translations for inflict

• infliggere
  A un altro livello, vi è ancora chi mira a infliggere la distruzione di massa alle nostre democrazie. On another level, there are still those who aim to inflict mass destruction on our democracies.
  Ancora una volta, se non si presta attenzione, si rischia di infliggere sofferenze ad animali che non lo meritano. Again, if we are not careful, we are going to inflict hardship on animals that do not deserve it.
  Non credo che dovremmo infliggere simili fardelli ai cittadini europei - in ogni caso non a lungo termine. I do not believe that we should inflict such headaches on our citizens in Europe - at any rate, not in the long term.

Definition of inflict

• To thrust upon; to impose

Examples

• They inflicted terrible pains on her to obtain a confession

Related words

• inflicted
• infliction
• self-inflicted
• inflictive
• self-inflict
• inflict upon someone/something