inflict vs afflict
Definitions
verb
- impose something unpleasant
Examples
Though manœuvring went on for four days and a good deal of damage was inflicted, the result was indecisive, no ships being captured or sunk.
And while Annie inflicts humiliation and degradation and withholds pain relief and food Paul is forced to write a new chapter every day simply to stay alive.
However, the destruction of so many kamikaze flights did a great deal to undermine the potential for damage that the kamikazes could have inflicted.
Definitions
verb
- cause great unhappiness for; distress
- cause physical pain or suffering in
Examples
We like to use the word afflicted or, technical term, demonized.
Since the anito is the cause of all bodily afflictions the chief function of the person who battles for the health of the afflicted is that of the exorcist, rather than that of the therapeutist.
Very few of these cases involve plaintiffs afflicted with legitimate disabilities as most of us understand the term.
