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verb
- 1. inflict a penalty or sanction on (someone) as retribution for an offence, especially a transgression of a legal or moral code: "I have done wrong and I'm being punished for it" Similar Opposite
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to cause someone who has done something wrong or committed a crime to suffer, by hurting them, forcing them to pay money, sending them to prison, etc.: Those responsible for these crimes must be brought to court and punished. He punished the class by giv ing them extra work.
The meaning of PUNISH is to impose a penalty on for a fault, offense, or violation. How to use punish in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Punish.
To punish is to discipline or penalize someone because they've done something wrong. If you stole the cookie from the cookie jar, someone may have to punish you.
punish, correct, discipline refer to making evident public or private disapproval of violations of law, wrongdoing, or refusal to obey rules or regulations by imposing penalties. To punish is chiefly to inflict penalty or pain as a retribution for misdeeds, with little or no expectation of correction or improvement: to punish a thief.
1. To subject to a penalty for an offense, sin, or fault. 2. To inflict a penalty for (an offense). 3. To handle or use roughly; damage or hurt: My boots were punished by our long trek through the desert. v.intr. To exact or mete out punishment.
Punish definition: to subject to pain, loss, confinement, death, etc., as a penalty for some offense, transgression, or fault. See examples of PUNISH used in a sentence.
PUNISH definition: to make someone suffer because they have done something bad: . Learn more.
punish meaning, definition, what is punish: to make someone suffer because they have...: Learn more.
Definitions of 'punish' 1. To punish someone means to make them suffer in some way because they have done something wrong. [...] 2. To punish a crime means to punish anyone who commits that crime. [...] More. Conjugations of 'punish' present simple: I punish, you punish [...] past simple: I punished, you punished [...] past participle: punished.
Definition of punish verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
