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verb
- 1. inflict a penalty or sanction on (someone) as retribution for an offense, especially a transgression of a legal or moral code: "I have done wrong and I'm being punished for it"
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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 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.
1. to force (someone) to undergo a penalty or sanction, such as imprisonment, fines, death, etc, for some crime or misdemeanour. 2. (transitive) to inflict punishment for (some crime, etc) 3. (transitive) to use or treat harshly or roughly, esp as by overexertion. to punish a horse. 4. (transitive) informal.
Definition of punish verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
PUNISH definition: to make someone suffer because they have done something bad: . Learn more.
1 day ago · punish (third-person singular simple present punishes, present participle punishing, simple past and past participle punished) (transitive) To cause to suffer for crime or misconduct, to administer disciplinary action. Synonym: castigate. If a prince violates the law, then he must be punished like an ordinary person.
