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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]
Punish \Pun"ish\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Punished; p. pr. & vb.
n. Punishing.] [OE. punischen, F. punir, from L. punire,
punitum, akin to poena punishment, penalty. See Pain, and
-ish.]
1. 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.
[1913 Webster]
A greater power
Now ruled him, punished in the shape he sinned.
--Milton.
[1913 Webster]
2. 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.
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3. To injure, as by beating; to pommel. [Low]
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4. To deal with roughly or harshly; -- chiefly used with
regard to a contest; as, our troops punished the enemy.
[Colloq. or Slang]
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Syn: To chastise; castigate; scourge; whip; lash; correct;
discipline. See Chasten.
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]
Punish \Pun"ish\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Punished; p. pr. & vb.
n. Punishing.] [OE. punischen, F. punir, from L. punire,
punitum, akin to poena punishment, penalty. See Pain, and
-ish.]
1. 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. --Milton.
2. 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.
3. To injure, as by beating; to pommel. [Low]
Syn: To chastise; castigate; scourge; whip; lash; correct;
discipline. See Chasten.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 : [ wn ]
punishing
adj 1: resulting in punishment; "the king imposed a punishing tax"
2: characterized by toilsome effort to the point of exhaustion;
especially physical effort; "worked their arduous way up
the mining valley"; "a grueling campaign"; "hard labor";
"heavy work"; "heavy going"; "spent many laborious hours
on the project"; "set a punishing pace" [syn: arduous, backbreaking,
grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, toilsome]
From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
punishing
a.
That punishes physically and/or mentally; arduous, gruelling,
demanding.
n.
punishment.
vb.
(present participle of en punish nocat=1)
From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]
punishing
a.
That punishes physically and/or mentally; arduous, gruelling,
demanding.
n.
punishment.
vb.
(present participle of en punish nocat=1)
From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]
punishing
a.
That punishes physically and/or mentally; arduous, gruelling,
demanding.
n.
punishment.
vb.
(present participle of en punish nocat=1)
From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]
punishing
a.
That punishes physically and/or mentally; arduous, gruelling,
demanding.
n.
punishment.
vb.
(present participle of en punish nocat=1)
From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
punishing
Englanti vb.
(en-v-taivm p unish ing)
From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
punishing
Engelska a.
(avledning en punish ordform=prespart)
Engelska vb.
(böjning en verb punish)
From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 : [ freedict:eng-ara ]Punishing /pˈʌnɪʃɪŋ/ المعاقبةFrom English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]
punishing /pˈʌnɪʃɪŋ/From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]trestající
punishing /pˈʌnɪʃɪŋ/ bestrafend, strafend, abstrafend, ahndend see: punish, punishedFrom English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]
punishing /pˈʌnɪʃɪŋ/From English-Croatian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.2 : [ freedict:eng-hrv ]hart, schwer, strapazierend, kräftezehrend
punishing /pˈʌnɪʃɪŋ/ kažnjavanjeFrom English-Lithuanian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.7.2 : [ freedict:eng-lit ]
punishing /pʌnıʃıŋ/ 1. nubaudimas 2. varginantis, silpninantis 3. sunkus (apie pralaimėjimą)From English-Svenska FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:eng-swe ]
punishing //ˈpʌnɪʃɪŋ//From IPA:en_US : [ IPA:en_US ]straffande
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 : [ moby-thesaurus ]/ˈpənɪʃɪŋ/
53 Moby Thesaurus words for "punishing":
Herculean, arduous, backbreaking, burdensome, castigatory,
chastening, chastising, corrective, crushing, demanding,
disciplinary, draining, effortful, exhausting, fatiguesome,
fatiguing, forced, grueling, hard, hard-earned, hard-fought, heavy,
hefty, inflictive, killing, labored, laborious, onerous, operose,
oppressive, painful, penal, penological, punitive, punitory,
retributive, strained, straining, strenuous, stressful, taxing,
tiresome, tiring, toilsome, torturous, tough, troublesome, trying,
uphill, weariful, wearing, wearisome, wearying
From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary : [ stardic ]adj. 累人的，n. 惨败