Synonyms of the word

infliction

• n. The act of inflicting or something inflicted; an imposition.

annoyance

• n. (countable) That which annoys.
• n. (countable) An act or instance of annoying.
• n. (uncountable) The psychological state of being annoyed or irritated.

bother

• v. (transitive) To annoy, to disturb, to irritate.
• v. (intransitive) To feel care or anxiety; to make or take trouble; to be troublesome.
• v. (intransitive) To do something which is of negligible inconvenience.
• n. Fuss, ado.
• n. Trouble, inconvenience.
• interj. A mild expression of annoyance.

botheration

• n. The act of bothering, or state of being bothered; cause of trouble; perplexity; annoyance; vexation.
• interj. An expression of annoyance.

enforcement

• n. The act of enforcing; compulsion.
• n. A giving force to; a putting in execution.
• n. That which enforces, constraints, gives force, authority, or effect to; constraint; force applied.

imposition

• n. The act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like.
• n. That which is imposed, levied, or enjoined.
• n. An excessive, arbitrary, or unlawful exaction; hence, a trick or deception put or laid on others.
• n. (printing) Arrangement of a printed product’s pages on the printer's sheet so as to have the pages in…
• n. (religion) A practice of laying hands on a person in a religious ceremony; used e.g. in confirmation and…
• n. (Britain) A task imposed on a student as punishment.

misconduct

• n. behavior that is considered to be unacceptable.
• v. (transitive) To mismanage.
• v. (reflexive) To behave inappropriately, to misbehave.
• v. (intransitive, rare) To act improperly.

pain

• n. (countable and uncountable) An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation,…
• n. (uncountable) The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure;…
• n. (countable) An annoying person or thing.
• n. (uncountable, obsolete) Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.
• n. Labour; effort; pains.
• v. (transitive) To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any…
• v. (transitive) To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.

wrongdoing

• n. (uncountable) Violation of standards of behavior.
• n. (countable) An instance of doing wrong.