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Definition of Punish
1. Verb. Impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on. "We had to punish the dog for soiling the floor again"
Entails: Approximate, Estimate, Gauge, Guess, Judge
Specialized synonyms: Avenge, Retaliate, Revenge, Tar-and-feather, Execute, Put To Death, Pillory, Castigate, Amerce, Victimise, Victimize, Scourge, Correct, Discipline, Sort Out
Derivative terms: Penalisation, Penalty, Penalization, Punishment, Punitive, Punitory
Definition of Punish
1. v. t. 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.
2. v. t. To deal with roughly or harshly; -- chiefly used with regard to a contest; as, our troops punished the enemy.
Definition of Punish
1. Verb. To cause to suffer for crime or misconduct, to administer disciplinary action. ¹
2. Verb. To cause great harm to. (''a punishing blow'') ¹
3. Verb. To dumb down severely or to the point of uselessness or near-uselessness. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Punish
1. to impose a penalty on in requital for wrongdoing [v -ED, -ING, -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Punish
Literary usage of Punish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1888)
"Indiana had jurisdiction to try and punish them for that offense, and the judgment
of the circuit court refusing the writ of habeas corpus Is accordingly ..."
2. Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary by Joseph Story (1891)
"POWER TO punish PIRACIES AND FELONIES. § 1157. THE next power of Congress is "to
define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, ..."
3. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas ( Hobbes (1841)
"well as good ; though he punish the creatures, for NO. xiv. doing that which he
himself did necessitate them ''—' to do. But being pressed with reason, ..."
4. The Hopkinsian Magazine by Otis Thompson (1826)
"Or if his punishing sinners, in any instance, proves that he is just in punishing
them, it equally proves that it is consistent with hi* goodness to punish ..."
5. The Code of Civil Procedure of the State of New York by New York (State). (1896)
"A court of record has power to punish for a criminal contempt, a person guilty
... But a court cannot punish as a contempt, the publication of a true, full, ..."
6. United States Statutes at Large: Containing the Laws and Concurrent by United States (1868)
"... in Congress assembled, That the thirteenth section of Authority of an act
entitled '• An act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and re- ! ..."
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