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/pˈənɪʃɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Punish v. t. (past & past part. punished; pres. part. punishing)

To impose a penalty upon; to afflict with pain, loss, or suffering for a crime or fault, either with or without a view to the offender's amendment; to cause to suffer in retribution; to chasten; as, to punish traitors with death; a father punishes his child for willful disobedience. "A greater power Now ruled him, punished in the shape he sinned."

To inflict a penalty for (an offense) upon the offender; to repay, as a fault, crime, etc., with pain or loss; as, to punish murder or treason with death.

To injure, as by beating; to pommel. (Low)

To deal with roughly or harshly; chiefly used with regard to a contest; as, our troops punished the enemy. (Colloq. or Slang)

Synonyms: To chastise; castigate; scourge; whip; lash; correct; discipline. See Chasten.

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— The Billow and the Rock • Harriet Martineau

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... the house would look at them with a sort of helplessness when they came in, sometimes even forgetting the smile he was wont to wear to hide his hurts. He was impressed anew each time he saw them with the punishing power of such vengeance as was left to the Lord. He could see more than either of the pair before him. The little white-haired boy who had fought him with tooth and nail so long ago, to be not taken from Prudence, had now come back with the might ...

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— I Will Repay • Baroness Emmuska Orczy

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