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Discover LudwigThe phrase "inflicted pain" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to describe the action of causing someone else pain. For example, you could say "The bully inflicted immense pain on the victim."
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They inflicted pain.
I inflicted pain on her, chasing my illusion.
Uday appears to have inflicted pain and death mostly for pleasure.
"The counter-sanctions imposed by Russia have inflicted pain on the Greek economy.
He then inflicted pain on them and watched them in the scanner.
Instead, he said, the staff inflicted pain on the children, mostly on the boys.
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McKevitt said Asda was suffering from the revival at Tesco but also from self-inflicted pain.
She simply chooses to display her self-inflicted pain rather than seek treatment for it.
Prisoners were sometimes held in tiny coffinlike boxes or forced to stand until overcome by the "self-inflicted pain".
Maybe a child would have given his life purpose, as he had hoped, filling whatever void he was now plugging with this self-inflicted pain.
She sat in the courtyard and howled like a wolf, hitting herself on her head and between her legs, screaming with self-inflicted pain.
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