Punishes is valid Scrabble Word

Is punishes a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is punishes valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

8 letters word
13 points in Scrabble
15 points in WWF

Definitions for PUNISHES in dictionary:

VERB:

PUNISH, 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.
capitalize on (an opponent's mistake), especially in sport

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to impose a penalty on in requital for wrongdoing

Words related to PUNISHES

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How to use PUNISHES in a sentence

No sooner has he published this conviction of high calling than he is set upon by the others, punishes them soundly, or is himself vanquished and driven off.
Men do not believe that God punishes sin and wrong- doing, either in this world or in the world to come.
He is free from animosities and friendships, and neither punishes those who are his enemies nor rewards those who are his friends.
Its grade and punishment have been left to the provisions of the common law, which treats it as a misdemeanor, and punishes it with fine and imprisonment in the common jail.
Independent of there being far less crimes committed in France than in England, the French code punishes but few offences with death.
He punishes those who pursue iniquity, and he favors those who work for the good of the community.
The mother who is made angry by the misconduct of her children, and punishes them in a passion, acts under the influence of a brute instinct.
Modern law punishes rape with death, and its victim is held to have suffered a fate worse than death.
I know he is committing a fraud, and that the law punishes such fraud.
By an inevitable chain of causes and effects, Providence punishes national sins by national calamities.

It only punishes the abuse of this power, and that is precisely what nations ought to do, in a case of the abuse of the right to examine a merchantman.
Surely God punishes me, to correct me, and make me better.
If a man destroys this in himself and others, she punishes him like the hardest tyrant.
It is only on a guilty person that the rigour of punishment can fall, for he punishes himself.
For in no other way can the holy desires of your Majesty, which are those of God, who rewards the good and punishes the evil, be obtained.
On the other hand, nature punishes any neglect of prudence.
He leaves the ground an hour or two after I do, and seizes and severely punishes any one found trespassing.
He only punishes when justice absolutely demands it, and then reluctantly.
In cases of adultery the injured husband has a right to seize the effects of the paramour, and sometimes punishes his wife by cutting off her hair.
He denounces and passes judgment upon, and punishes men and women, who go too far in their appreciation and practice of apolausticism as a philosophy of life.
A father, when he punishes, remains A father, and his ire is satisfied With a light sentence.
It forces him to steal and then punishes him for being a thief.
He who, seeking his own happiness, punishes or kills beings who also long for happiness, will not find happiness after death.
Believe me, Stella, there is a God in heaven who thwarts selfishness and punishes it in ways often least expected.
This great being, Mwetyi, witnesses covenants and punishes perjury.
There is the continued belief in a Deity who can and should be persuaded to change the weather, or who punishes those who offend Him by famine, earthquake and pestilence.
He not only looks after the knowledge and recitation of the doctrine, but even trains them in good habits, and punishes them gently when they are at fault.
He punishes for the sake of prevention, thereby clearly implying that virtue is capable of being taught.
On the one hand Varuna is the Lord of Law and of Truth who punishes moral offences with dropsy.
He punishes either with or without trial, for crimes either declared to be so, or not so declared, by any existing law, or by his own orders.
It is not the vice that society punishes, it is the being found out.

Similar words containing PUNISHE without suffix s

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