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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
penalise

chiefly British English spelling of penalize; for suffix, see -ize. Related: Penalised; penalising.

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penalise

vb. (standard spelling of from=non-Oxford British spelling penalize English)

WordNet
penalise

v. impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on; "The students were penalized for showing up late for class"; "we had to punish the dog for soiling the floor again" [syn: punish, penalize]

Usage examples of "penalise".

Society was very swift to penalise if that modest standard was offended, she said with a sighing bitterness.

After all, what was dearly the correct choice had elicited no response, so what was the sense in being penalised for making the wrong one?

The most refractory of seigneurs were fined and additionally penalised with interest charges.

A love vast as ours is penalised, as it were, by this blur, which is the hall-mark of infinity.

We have every right to come down on them for this last stunt - ' 'Except, of course, we would be penalising the wrong people.

If a pursuee is shot by accident, the pursuers are penalised by the time it takes for the shot pursuee to convince his partners to continue without him while he tries to hold off the pursuers as long as he can.