Punish is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PUNISH in dictionary:

VERB:
• to impose a penalty for wrongdoing
• inflict a penalty or sanction on (someone) as retribution for an offence, especially a transgression of a legal or moral code
• inflict a penalty or sanction on someone for (such an offence)
• treat (someone) in an unfairly harsh way
• subject to severe and debilitating treatment.
• cause (someone) to suffer or undergo a penalty for some wrongdoing
• 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.
• 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.
• impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on
• capitalize on (an opponent's mistake), especially in sport
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to impose a penalty on in requital for wrongdoing

Words related to PUNISH

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Words that contain PUNISH

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How to use PUNISH in a sentence

• The next day she was tied to the sofa to punish her for running away.
• When a considerable time had elapsed without seeing his return, his servants searched for Pusong, in order to punish him, but he had escaped to the mountains.
• After the meal, Somacuel told his wife that he had seen all and should punish her severely.
• I beseech you, punish me not with your hard thoughts, wherein I confess me much guilty to deny so fair and excellent ladies any thing.
• It was in his power to punish them severely, but he chose to use all possible forbearance, so as not to give the planters any grounds of complaint.
• May he not punish me for the same reason that I punish them? I punish them to correct them and make them better.
• A few expressed some concern lest their masters should punish them for serving us, if they ever returned.
• Jeremias Chapter 15 God is determined to punish the Jews for their sins.
• They resolved that come what might the attempt to regain their property and punish the Indians should be made notwithstanding their strength.
• It is an essential attribute of the jurisdiction of every country to preserve peace, to punish acts in breach of it, and to restore property taken by force within its limits.
• This is truly creating crimes in order to punish them.
• Weakness provokes insult and injury, while a condition to punish, often prevents them.
• Will you punish them for the madness you have occasioned? Rather let prudence and temper come first from this side.
• Failure to prosecute for or punish heresy or witchcraft was at one time regarded at least as wrong as failure to punish or prosecute for theft or murder would now be.
• The American soldiers were even said to be refusing to fight, and great prisons were being constructed in order properly to punish them.
• So she determined to punish the gentleman, and went out to Buston Hall and called him Peter Prosper.
• I will pray God every day for his infinite mercy, that he may not punish eternally the errors of a day.
• God will punish you hereafter, but I will punish you here!” “Ah, this is too much!” cried Buckingham, making a step toward the door.
• For can it be denied that some men love God in the hope that God may do something for them, while others love God lest he may punish them.
• He looked around, hoping that he might somewhere see a policeman, for he wanted to punish the scoundrel to whom he owed his unhappiness and loss.
• This affair coming to the knowledge of Uguccione, who was then at Pisa, it appeared to him a proper opportunity to punish Castruccio.
• Aguinaldo expressed his regret and promised to punish the offenders.
• It is certain, however, that the empress did not punish, or even dismiss from her favor, the murderers of Peter.
• Much more is it needed in this land than in others, as dissimulation and failure to punish are so usual in it.
• He remarks that he had never been engaged in judicial inquiries about the Christians, and that accordingly he did not know what to inquire about, or how far to inquire and punish.

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