Another word for punish
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Verb
To subject (one) to a penalty for a wrong
- To subject (a person) to a penalty, especially for infringement of a law or regulation.
- To make (an action or a condition) liable to a penalty:
- To impose a handicap on; place at a disadvantage:
- Training expected to produce a specific character or pattern of behavior, especially training that produces moral or mental improvement:
- Control obtained by enforcing compliance or order:
- Controlled behavior resulting from disciplinary training; self-control:
- To make or put right:
- To remove the errors or mistakes from:
- To indicate or mark the errors in:
- To punish, as for wrongdoing.
- To criticize severely; reprimand or rebuke.
- To purify.
- To punish or rebuke severely.
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Another word for punish
Verb
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- To correct or set right; adjust:
- To restore to proper condition or working order; repair:
- To make ready for a specific purpose, as by altering or combining elements; prepare:
- (idiomatic, informal) To charge with or convict of as many crimes as possible.
- (idiomatic, informal) To apply the harshest possible punishment to.
- The solid surface of the earth.
- The floor of a body of water, especially the sea.
- Soil; earth:
- (idiomatic) To use one's superior physical strength.
- (idiomatic, with "on") To suddenly overpower.
- To pass the tongue over or along:
- To lap up:
- To lap or flicker at like a tongue:
- To attack physically.
- To attack verbally; scold.
- to enforce laws or punish (something) more vigilantly
- A negative vote, especially one that blocks the admission of an applicant to an organization.
- A small black ball used as a negative ballot.
- To vote against, especially to veto the admission of.
- A list of persons or organizations that have incurred disapproval or suspicion or are to be boycotted or otherwise penalized.
- To place on or as if on a blacklist.
- A fold used as trimming at the bottom of a sleeve.
- A band, often having an opening with a button closure, at the bottom of a sleeve.
- The turned-up fold at the bottom of a trouser leg.
- An exchange or a swap, especially one done secretly.
- A transference or shift, as of opinion or attention.
- A device used to break or open an electric circuit or to divert current from one conductor to another.
- Any of various deciduous trees or shrubs of the genus Betula, native to the Northern Hemisphere and having unisexual flowers in catkins, alternate, simple, toothed leaves, and bark that often peels in thin papery layers.
- The hard, close-grained wood of any of these trees, used especially in furniture, interior finishes, and plywood.
- A rod from a birch, used to administer a whipping.
- To beat severely with a whip or rod.
- To publicize aggressively:
- To thrash; beat:
- To defeat decisively:
- To criticize severely:
- To strike or beat, especially repeatedly with a flail or stick.
- To strike violently; batter:
- To swing or strike in a manner suggesting the action of a flail:
- To strike repeatedly.
- To subject to repeated beatings or physical abuse; batter.
- To punish by hitting or whipping; flog.
- A usually wooden implement having a blade at one end or sometimes at both ends, used without an oarlock to propel a canoe or small boat.
- A light wooden or plastic racket used in playing table tennis, platform tennis, and similar games.
- A flat board with a handle used to administer physical punishment.
- To slap on the buttocks with a flat object or with the open hand, as for punishment.
- To move briskly or spiritedly.
- A slap on the buttocks.
- To inflict a heavy blow on, with or as if with the hand, a tool, or a weapon.
- To drive or strike (a weapon, for example) forcefully onto or into something else.
- To attack, damage, or destroy by or as if by blows.
- To discipline by dragging under the keel of a ship.
- To rebuke harshly.
- The top of a mast.
- The listing in a newspaper or periodical of information about its staff, operation, and circulation.
- The title of a newspaper or periodical as it appears across the first page, front cover, or title page.
- To strike with a strap or rod; lash:
- To afflict, castigate, or reprove severely:
- To strike or affect in a manner similar to whipping or lashing:
- To strip of priestly privileges and functions.
- To deprive of the right to practice a profession.
- To deprive of an honorary position.
- To drive from a bench or seat.
- (UK, law) To deprive (a bencher) of his privileges.
- To prohibit (an attorney) from the practice of law by official action or procedure.
- To end the employment or service of; discharge.
- To direct or allow to leave:
- To stop considering; rid one's mind of; dispel:
- To kill with electricity:
- To execute (a person sentenced to death) by means of electricity.
- To fasten from above with no support from below; suspend:
- To suspend or fasten so as to allow free movement at or about the point of suspension:
- To execute by hanging:
- To separate the head from; decapitate.
- The condition or period of being forced to live away from one's native country or home, especially as a punishment.
- The condition or period of self-imposed absence from one's country or home:
- One who lives away from one's native country, whether because of expulsion or voluntary absence.
- To put into effect; carry out:
- To perform; do:
- To create (a work of art, for example) in accordance with a prescribed design.
- To force or drive out:
- To discharge from or as if from a receptacle:
- To deprive of membership or rights in an organization; force to leave:
- To confine within or as if within walls; imprison.
- To build into a wall:
- To entomb in a wall.
- To put in or as if in prison; confine.
- To put in a prison or jail.
- To shut in; confine.
- Of superior quality, skill, or appearance:
- Excellent in character or ability:
- Very small in size, weight, or thickness:
- An exposition of a given subject delivered before an audience or class, as for the purpose of instruction.
- An earnest admonition or reproof; a reprimand.
- To deliver a lecture or series of lectures.
- To reprimand or criticize harshly and usually angrily.
- To express harsh or angry disapproval to someone.
- One who persistently nags or criticizes:
- To express disapproval to (someone); criticize:
- To express disapproval about (something):
- A series of connected railroad cars pulled or pushed by one or more locomotives.
- A long line of moving people, animals, or vehicles.
- The personnel, vehicles, and equipment following and providing supplies and services to a combat unit.
- A grammatical unit that is syntactically independent and has a subject that is expressed or, as in imperative sentences, understood and a predicate that contains at least one finite verb.
- The penalty imposed by a law court or other authority upon someone found guilty of a crime or other offense.
- A maxim.
- To subject (a person) to a penalty, especially for infringement of a law or regulation.
- To make (an action or a condition) liable to a penalty:
- To impose a handicap on; place at a disadvantage:
- To punish or rebuke severely.
- To correct by punishment or reproof; take to task.
- To restrain; subdue:
- To rid of excess; refine or purify:
- To punish, as for wrongdoing.
- To criticize severely; reprimand or rebuke.
- To purify.
- To make or put right:
- To remove the errors or mistakes from:
- To indicate or mark the errors in:
- Training expected to produce a specific character or pattern of behavior, especially training that produces moral or mental improvement:
- Control obtained by enforcing compliance or order:
- Controlled behavior resulting from disciplinary training; self-control:
Synonym Study
- Chasten implies the infliction of tribulation in order to make obedient, meek, subdued, etc.""He chastens and hastens His will to make known'', a chastening experience
- Castigate now implies punishment by severe public criticism or censure to castigate a corrupt official
- Chastise may imply severe rebuke or, more usually, corporal punishment and connotes both retribution and correction
- Correct suggests punishment for the purpose of overcoming faults to correct unruly pupils
- Discipline suggests punishment that is intended to control or to establish habits of self-control to discipline a naughty child
- Punish implies the infliction of some penalty on a wrongdoer and generally connotes retribution rather than correction to punish a murderer by hanging
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