Infliction: alternatives and connections

The act or omission that forms the physical part of a crime.

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The act of enforcing; compulsion.

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Wrong conduct; bad behavior; mismanagement.

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Evil or wicked behavior or action.

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Rendering null and void; conditionally invalidating.

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That which annoys or gives trouble and vexation; that which is offensive or noxious.

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That which smites, wounds, or troubles; a blow; a calamity; any afflictive evil or torment; a great trail or vexation.

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The act of protecting, or the state of being protected; preservation from loss, injury, or annoyance; defense; shelter; as, the weak need protection.

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The act of laying a tax, or of imposing taxes, as on the subjects of a state, by government, or on the members of a corporation or company, by the pr…

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A hard and sharp-pointed projection from a woody stem; usually, a branch so transformed; a spine.

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To go or come to see, as for the purpose of friendship, business, curiosity, etc.; to attend; to call upon; as, the physician visits his patient.

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To go or come to see, as for the purpose of friendship, business, curiosity, etc.; to attend; to call upon; as, the physician visits his patient.

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The act of annoying, or the state of being annoyed; molestation; vexation; annoy.

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To annoy; to trouble; to worry; to perplex. See Pother.

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The act of bothering, or state of being bothered; cause of trouble; perplexity; annoyance; vexation.

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The act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like.

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That which annoys or gives trouble and vexation; that which is offensive or noxious.

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Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty.

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