INFLICT
inflict, bring down, visit, impose
(verb) impose something unpleasant; “The principal visited his rage on the students”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
inflict (third-person singular simple present inflicts, present participle inflicting, simple past and past participle inflicted)
To thrust upon; to impose.
Source: Wiktionary
In*flict", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Inflicted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Inflicting.] Etym: [L. inflictus, p.p. of infligere to strike on, to
inflict; pref. in- in, on + fligere to strike. Cf. Flail.]
Definition: To give, cause, or produce by striking, or as if by striking;
to apply forcibly; to lay or impose; to send; to cause to bear, feel,
or suffer; as, to inflict blows; to inflict a wound with a dagger; to
inflict severe pain by ingratitude; to inflict punishment on an
offender; to inflict the penalty of death on a criminal.
What heart could wish, what hand inflict, this dire disgrace Drygen.
The persecution and the pain That man inflicts on infero-ior kinds.
Cowper.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition