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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
penalize
verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ It is unfair that the whole class should be penalized because of the bad behaviour of a few students.
▪ New laws will penalize firms that continue to pollute the environment.
▪ The House of Representatives voted to penalize him for ethics violations.
▪ The proposed energy taxes would unfairly penalize people living in rural areas.
▪ Wallace was penalized twice for false starts.
▪ Why should I be penalized just because everyone else did a bad job?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Darwinians have usually chosen to discuss genes whose phenotypic effects benefit, or penalize, the survival and reproduction of whole bodies.
▪ How would it be monitored and regulated to ensure that those who cheated were penalized?
▪ It would penalize foreign companies for energy investments in those two nations -- even if legal under their own laws.
▪ Legislation is pending in Sacramento and Washington that would penalize prisoners who file lawsuits that are later judged to be frivolous.
▪ Some religious conservatives have opposed the act, saying it unfairly penalizes people to overprotect lesser forms of life.
▪ The Government will decide over the next few weeks whether to penalize Gloucestershire for overspending.
▪ The overall aim is to ensure that the welfare state encourages rather than penalizes personal initiative.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Penalize

Penalize \Pe"nal*ize\, v. t.

  1. To make penal.

  2. (Sport.) To put a penalty on. See Penalty,

  3. [Eng.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
penalize

1868, from penal + -ize. Related: Penalized; penalizing.

Wiktionary
penalize

vb. 1 (context transitive English) To subject to a penalty, ''especially'' for the infringement of a rule or regulation. 2 (context transitive sports English) To impose a handicap on.

WordNet
penalize

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, penalise]

Usage examples of "penalize".

To punish the exercise of this right to discuss public affairs or to penalize it through libel judgments is to abridge or shut off discussion of the very kind most needed.

Most new genes that arise, either by mutation or reassortment or immigration, are quickly penalized by natural selection: the evolutionarily stable set is restored.

Our law does not penalize the act of requiring usurious terms of interest.

They cannot see ten feet beyond the passway, and they invent ambush from every fall of limb or call of bird and I have had to threaten to severely penalize any man who fires indiscriminately.

It teaches them that the taboos which surround them, however absurd at bottom, nevertheless penalize their courage and curiosity with unescapable dudgeon, and so they become partisans of the existing order, and, per corollary, of the existing ethic.

Governor Barnett and Lieutenant Governor Johnson were never penalized for their contempt of the federal courts.

Most new genes that arise, either by mutation or reassortment or immigration, are quickly penalized by natural selection: the evolutionarily stable set is restored.

It is too small and weak to bully its parents physically, but it uses every psychological weapon at its disposal: lying, cheating, deceiving, exploiting, right up to the point where it starts to penalize its relatives more than its genetic relatedness to them should allow.

There are some other problems with pursuing such measures via the United Nations, although they pale beside the basic problem of convincing a Security Council that abhors the Iraq sanctions to impose new sanctions that penalize other countries for violating the hated Iraq sanctions.

The first party specifies the exact act he is penalizing and stipulates such punishment as he chooses.

They had to make a certain minimum score or be denied graduation, and any county school system with too low an average would be penalized.

You've been getting penalized like a player in a tournament who oversleeps and automatically gets all the antes and blind bets deducted from his absentee buy-in, and those involuntary bets have—have cost you, horribly.

If this group were penalized, not for its faults, but for its virtues, not for its incompetence, but for its ability, not for its failures, but for its achievements, and the greater the achievement, the greater the penalty—would you call that persecution?

It went as follows: if the students commit illegal acts, they will be punished by the courts and must not, therefore, be penalized by the university for the same offense.

If genius is penalized, so is the faculty of intelligence in every other man.