inflicted
- 1Simple past and past participle of inflict.
The drought inflicted severe losses on farmers across the region.
He has inflicted enough pain on this family already.
Note
One spelling does two jobs here: the regular -ed ending serves both the simple past and the participle that follows have or be. In the passive, the thing imposed becomes the subject (heavy damage was inflicted on the town), while the one who suffers it stays after on or upon. That preposition comes from the verb's core idea of thrusting something upon someone, so it never drops away.
Heavy damage was inflicted on the town during the storm.
The wounds had been inflicted upon him long before he reached the camp.
inflicted is a form of inflict
inflict, verb: To impose something unwelcome or burdensome on another person, forcing it upon them. Full entry
- Forms
- inflictinflicts he/she/itinflicting -ing forminflicted past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- inflict → inflicted: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪd/, an extra syllable.
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