Word Meanings - SELF-TORTURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of inflicting pain on one's self; pain inflicted on one's self.

INFLICT
To give, cause, or produce by striking, or as if by striking; to apply forcibly; to lay or impose; to send; to cause to bear, feel, or suffer; as, to inflict blows; to inflict a wound with a dagger; to inflict severe pain by ingratitude; to inflict
INFLICTION
1. The act of inflicting or imposing; as, the infliction of torment, or of punishment. 2. That which is inflicted or imposed, as punishment, disgrace, calamity, etc. His severest inflictions are in themselves acts of justice and righteousness.
INFLICTER
One who inflicts. Godis the sole and immadiate inflicter of such strokes. South.
INFLICTIVE
Causing infliction; acting as an infliction. Whitehead.