Crossword clues for punishing
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.]
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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. 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.
To injure, as by beating; to pommel. [Low]
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To deal with roughly or harshly; -- chiefly used with regard to a contest; as, our troops punished the enemy.
Syn: To chastise; castigate; scourge; whip; lash; correct; discipline. See Chasten.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"hard-hitting," 1811, present participle adjective from punish (v.). Related: Punishingly.
Wiktionary
1 That inflicts punishment 2 arduous, gruelling n. punishment v
(present participle of punish English)
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"; "heavy going"; "spent many laborious hours on the project"; "set a punishing pace" [syn: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, toilsome]
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.