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Inflicting a penalty
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punishing
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ He set himself a punishing schedule of talks, lectures and conferences all over America. ▪ the desert's punishing climate ▪ The transatlantic flight was a punishing task for the plane's old engines. ▪ Wang has a punishing ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
1 That inflicts punishment 2 arduous, gruelling n. punishment v (present participle of punish English)
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"hard-hitting," 1811, present participle adjective from punish (v.). Related: Punishingly .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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 .] To impose a penalty upon; to afflict with pain, loss, or suffering ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. resulting in punishment; "the king imposed a punishing tax" 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"; ...
Usage examples of punishing.
He lashed at Jaw with his stick, apparently punishing the mastodont for his minor theft of the food.
Fleet, and for more effectually preventing and punishing arbitrary and illegal practices of the warden of the said prison.
The punishing lashes left reddening stripes where the wood whipped the flesh.
The fighters went to afterburner and swept into punishing high-g turns while heads swiveled and eyes squinted at familiar shapes while trying to decide if the paint scheme was friendly or not.
This house of commons, which, like all the preceding, during the reigns of James and Charles, and even of Elizabeth, was much governed by the Puritanical party, thought that they could not better serve their cause than by branding and punishing the Arminian sect, which, introducing an innovation in the church, were the least favored and least powerful of all their antagonists.
The United States could build a new containment regime centered on a set of punishing secondary sanctions that imposed real costs on those who buy Iraqi oil illegally and sell Baghdad prohibited military and dual-use items.
The magistrate fixed him with a glare so intense and punishing that Creeps stopped moving.
He would kill the Naren if Crinion died, punishing him for building such a shoddy device.
The car bumped down the slope, driverless and blind, clattered off the road, hit a deep hole, and threw us together with a punishing jolt.
Close to two hundred people all punishing somebody by getting embarrassed for him, killing him by empathetically dying right there with him, for him, up there at the podium.
Despite the punishing changes in temperature and the lack of rain, porous rock served as a fertile home for endolithic fungi and algae.
Doc Savage, it seemed, made a profession of righting wrongs and punishing evildoers in the far corners of the earth.
Doc Savage took no pay for punishing the evildoers and righting the wrongs, and Rhoda Haven doubted that, too.
Through her mind ran the legends of the feats he had performed, of his strange career of righting wrongs and punishing evildoers throughout the far corners of the earth.
Doc Savage and his little group were engaged in one of the most unusual of careers, that of righting wrongs and punishing evildoers, frequently in the far ends of the world.