inflict, earshot, 'mortified', self-inflicted

A pause in the bombing and the ruins are laid bare - Peter Beaumont reports from Gaza

A pause in the bombing by Israeli forces – and the ruins of Gaza are laid bare

Repeated shelling has inflicted a terrible reality on Palestinians, as they...

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 By 1978, Deng had become China’s “paramount leader.” It follows, therefore, that apart from his long period of house arrest and banishment during the years 1967-73, and during another year in 1976-77, when Mao again removed him from the political scene, Deng must share the blame for much of the agony Mao inflicted on China and the Chinese. He certainly bears the major responsibility for the Tiananmen Square killings in 1989.


In the former industrial town of Rochdale, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown was confronted Wednesday by a woman named Gillian Duffy about foreign workers coming into England, among other beefs. Moments later, thinking he was safely out of earshot, Mr. Brown was caught on microphone blasting his aides for exposing him to 'a bigoted woman.' The audio feed went out across the airwaves, the 'mortified' prime minister abjectly apologized, describing himself as 'a penitent sinner,' and the media went wild.



Taiwan man probed over robbery amputation claim
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TAIPEI — A Taiwanese man who said his hand had to be amputated after a savage robbery in China was questioned Monday by the island's police amid allegations the injuries were self-inflicted. Taiwan police said that 59-year-old Hu Chi-yang's insurance ...



beef
n., pl., beeves (bēvz), or beef.

1. 1. A full-grown steer, bull, ox, or cow, especially one intended for use as meat.
   2. The flesh of a slaughtered full-grown steer, bull, ox, or cow.
2. Informal. Human muscle; brawn.
3. pl., beefs. Slang. A complaint.

intr.v. Slang, beefed, beef·ing, beefs.
To complain.

phrasal verb:
beef up Informal.

1. To make or become greater or stronger: beef up the defense budget.

[Middle English, from Old French buef, from Latin bōs, bov-.]

WORD HISTORY That beef comes from cows is known to most, but the close relationship between the words beef and cow is hardly household knowledge. Cow comes via Middle English from Old English cū, which is descended from the Indo-European root *g^wou-, also meaning "cow." This root has descendants in most of the branches of the Indo-European language family. Among those descendants is the Latin word bōs, "cow," whose stem form, bov-, eventually became the Old French word buef, also meaning "cow." The French nobles who ruled England after the Norman Conquest of course used French words to refer to the meats they were served, so the animal called cū by the Anglo-Saxon peasants was called buef by the French nobles when it was brought to them cooked at dinner. Thus arose the distinction between the words for animals and their meat that is also found in the English word-pairs swine/pork, sheep/mutton, and deer/venison. What is interesting about cow/beef is that we are in fact dealing with one and the same word, etymologically speaking.

inflict

Line breaks: in|flict

Pronunciation: /ɪnˈflɪkt /

VERB

[WITH OBJECT]

1Cause (something unpleasant or painful) to be suffered by someone or something:they inflicted serious injuries on three other men

1.1(inflict something on) Impose something unwelcome on:

she is wrong to inflict her beliefs on everyone else

Origin

mid 16th century (in the sense 'afflict, trouble'): from Latin inflict- 'struck against', from the verb infligere, fromin- 'into' + fligere 'to strike'.

Derivatives

inflicter

(also inflictor) NOUN

inflict

音節

in • flict

発音

inflíkt

レベル

大学入試程度

inflictの変化形

inflicted (過去形) • inflicted (過去分詞) • inflicting (現在分詞) • inflicts (三人称単数現在)

[動](他)［inflict A on ［upon］ B］〈A（苦痛・打撃・刑罰・負担など）をB（人・国など）に〉与える, 加える, 負わせる, 科する；((受身))（…に）苦しめられている((with, by ...))

be inflicted with ［by］ ...
…に苦しめられている, 悩まされている

inflict injury ［punishment］ on ［upon］ a person
人に危害［罰］を加える

inflict oneself upon a friend
((おどけて))友人のやっかいになる.

［ラテン語inflictus（in-上に＋fligere打つ）. △CONFLICT］

in・flict・er, in・flíc・tor

[名]

in・flíc・tive

[形]

self-inflicted(sĕlf'ĭn-flĭk'tĭd)
adj.
Inflicted or imposed on oneself: died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.



mor·ti·fy (môr'tə-fī')
v., -fied, -fy·ing, -fies. v.tr.

1. To cause to experience shame, humiliation, or wounded pride; humiliate.
2. To discipline (one's body and physical appetites) by self-denial or self-inflicted privation.

v.intr.

1. To practice ascetic discipline or self-denial of the body and its appetites.
2. Pathology. To undergo mortification; become gangrenous or necrosed.

[Middle English mortifien, to deaden, subdue, from Old French mortifier, from Latin mortificāre, to kill : mors, mort-, death + -ficāre, -fy.]