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What does inflicting mean?

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Verb
  1. present participle of inflict
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Human beings over the ages have delighted in the most horrific and fiendish methods of inflicting extreme suffering, pain and mutilation.
The danger of these regimes is also in inflicting on multitudes the state of mass fear and, consequently, the state of psychological abnormality.
With respect to this dispensing of pain, it is the sadist who enjoys inflicting it, and the masochist is someone who enjoys receiving pain.
Our valiant forces were lying in wait for them, inflicting heavy losses on the covetous invaders.
The very nature of judicial corporal punishment is that it involves one human being inflicting physical violence on another human being.
These include the letters, written in code, which are said to make clear she was in favour of inflicting pain on her enemies.

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