INFLICT

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Traducere în limba română

inflict verb A. tranzitiv

1. (on, upon) a da (în), a lovi, a izbi (în, peste);

to inflict a blow on smb. a da o lovitură cuiva.

2. (on, upon) a pricinui, a cauza, a face (cuiva);

to inflict a wound on smb. a face cuiva o rană.

3. (jur.) (on) a aplica, a da (o pedeapsă, o amendă etc.) (cuiva);

to inflict punishment on smb. a da cuiva o pedeapsă.

inflict verb B. reflexiv

a se impune;

to inflict oneself on smb. a-şi impune prezenţa cuiva, a sta pe capul cuiva.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

The instrument with which the injury had been inflicted lay upon the carpet beside him.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Thus he learned how to inflict quick and severe damage.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

The injuries were such as might very well have been inflicted by the butt-end of his son’s gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the body.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The fact was, I had other things to think about; within the last few months feelings had been stirred in me so much more potent than any they could raise—pains and pleasures so much more acute and exquisite had been excited than any it was in their power to inflict or bestow—that their airs gave me no concern either for good or bad.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

As soon as I could speak, I replied that I had not supposed it possible, coming in such a state of mind into that house as I had done, that anything could occur to make me suffer more, but that she had been inflicting deeper wounds in almost every sentence.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

The painter hadn't made the scar, but I made it; and there it was, coming and going; now confined to the upper lip as I had seen it at dinner, and now showing the whole extent of the wound inflicted by the hammer, as I had seen it when she was passionate.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

The wounds seem such as might be made by a rat or a small dog, and although of not much importance individually, would tend to show that whatever animal inflicts them has a system or method of its own.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

Suppose a man had fired through the window, he would indeed be a remarkable shot who could with a revolver inflict so deadly a wound.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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