"infliction" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Borrowed, perhaps via French, from Latin īnflīctiōnem.",
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    {
      "form": "inflictions",
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        "plural"
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          "ref": "1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 221",
          "text": "The boot, thumbscrews, the shackles, and a contraption called the \"warm hose\", were only a few of the inflictions being too terrible to mention.",
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        "The act of inflicting or something inflicted; an imposition."
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          "word": "inflict"
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        {
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "The act of inflicting or something inflicted; an imposition",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "inflicció"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "The act of inflicting or something inflicted; an imposition",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "imposizione"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "The act of inflicting or something inflicted; an imposition",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "irrogazione"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "The act of inflicting or something inflicted; an imposition",
          "tags": [
            "feminine",
            "rare"
          ],
          "word": "inflizione"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "The act of inflicting or something inflicted; an imposition",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "inflicção"
        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "The act of inflicting or something inflicted; an imposition",
          "word": "nanošenje"
        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "The act of inflicting or something inflicted; an imposition",
          "word": "počinjanje"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "The act of inflicting or something inflicted; an imposition",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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          "word": "inflicción"
        }
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      "ipa": "/ɪnˈflɪkʃən/"
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  "word": "infliction"
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        "3": "inflictio",
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  "etymology_text": "Borrowed, perhaps via French, from Latin īnflīctiōnem.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "inflictions",
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      "word": "inflict"
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          "ref": "1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 221",
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      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "The act of inflicting or something inflicted; an imposition",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "inflicció"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "The act of inflicting or something inflicted; an imposition",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "imposizione"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "The act of inflicting or something inflicted; an imposition",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "irrogazione"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "The act of inflicting or something inflicted; an imposition",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "rare"
      ],
      "word": "inflizione"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "The act of inflicting or something inflicted; an imposition",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "inflicção"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "The act of inflicting or something inflicted; an imposition",
      "word": "nanošenje"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "The act of inflicting or something inflicted; an imposition",
      "word": "počinjanje"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "The act of inflicting or something inflicted; an imposition",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "inflicción"
    }
  ],
  "word": "infliction"
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