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Independent
- Noun, plural
  causes.
- Verb, 3rd person singular present
  Does, Entailed, secures, joins, assumes, presumes, supposes, adds, necessitates, applies, raises, generates, induces, makes, produces, provokes, presents, brings, leads, prompts, poses, arouses, implies, represents, triggers, turns, introduces, presupposes, embodies, creates, incites, involves, signifies, equates, wreaks, entails, imposes.
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- Verb, 3rd person singular present
  causes.

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administer, edit, execute, impose, mete out, subject, visit, ET, impose upon, inflict damage, execute upon, impose sanctions on.

Usage examples for Inflicts

The lack of simplicity inflicts many wounds.

"Letters of Madam Guyon"

P. L. Upham

Not being able to discover what fly it is that inflicts these poisonous wounds, and having spent so many hours in the fields without experiencing such effects, I rather doubt these statements, though put forth in perfect good faith: indeed, I have often seen the arms and chests of the men in harvest time with huge bumps rising on them which they declared were thus caused.

"Wild Life in a Southern County"

Richard Jefferies

Every one has surely felt, some time or other in life, the insufferable annoyance of having his thoughts and reflections interfered with, and broken in upon by the vulgar impertinence and egotism of some "bore," who, mistaking your abstraction for attention and your despair for delight, inflicts upon you his whole life and adventures, when your own immediate destinies are perhaps vacillating in the scale.

"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"

Charles James Lever (1806-1872)

Famous quotes with Inflicts

The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.

Emile M. Cioran
If the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government.

Tommy Franks
The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.

John Stuart Mill
It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.

John Henry Newman
It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.

John Henry Newman

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