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UK
/pˈʌnɪʃ/
]
[ US /ˈpənɪʃ/ ]
[ US /ˈpənɪʃ/ ]
VERB
-
impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on
we had to punish the dog for soiling the floor again
The students were penalized for showing up late for class
How To Use punish In A Sentence
- As he ran past, the arquebusier shouted something about Susanoo, the kami of storms, and how he was punishing them for their arrogance. Blood Ninja II
- Sunshine can burn you, food can poison you, words can condemn you, pictures can insult you; music cannot punish ---- only bless. (Arthur Schnabel , Austrian pianist.
- Sunshine can burn you, food can poison you, words can condemn you, pictures can insult you ; music cannotpunish ---- only bless.
- And the moral murder of my child is to be my punishment for daring to turn a deaf ear to the indign passion of a brute! The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel
- The government is proposing tougher punishments for officials convicted of corruption.
- The French and Dutch results were punishment for political failure on a grand scale.
- There must then be obedience to an infinite law, or _infinite_ punishment for transgression. The Way of Salvation in the Lutheran Church
- My boots have taken quite a punishing recently I need a new pair.
- Now there is a problem in that the Framers did not include a power to punish for contumacy. The Volokh Conspiracy » The proper understanding of “Necessary and Proper”:
- The long punishing jaws of a borzoi can snatch up small and not-so-small varmints both wild or domestic with lightning speed.