Punishing is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PUNISHING 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
ADJECTIVE:
• resulting in punishment
• characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to impose a penalty on in requital for wrongdoing

Words related to PUNISHING

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Words that contain PUNISHING

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How to use PUNISHING in a sentence

• Cork would, I think, have tried punishing her if she had not been afraid of Mrs.
• A great wrong is done, and on the society in which it is done is imposed the task of making it translucent, of seeing it in all its relations, and of punishing it.
• Somacuel, however, had observed all, and he formed a plan for punishing his wife as she deserved.
• Alas, ye blind, unreasoning elements! Must ye, in punishing one guilty head, Destroy the vessel and the pilot too? BOY.
• Pompey, instead of punishing them severely for their crimes, treated them, and their wives and children, who fell likewise into his power, with great humanity.
• For to curse a man, is to pray and wish that God may become angry with him, and may vent his anger on the man by punishing him.
• The Nicolaus is the punishing spirit, the Christ-kindchen the rewarding one.
• In punishing of this, we overthrow The laws of nations and of nature too.
• Adolphe manages the joke so cleverly that he inspires his wife with the idea of punishing Ferdinand.
• If it be a fantastic desire, it is better to leave to others the office of punishing him.
• He told the mandarin that our intentions were good, and that we did not intend to harm China, but rather to aid them by punishing the pirates who infested those seas.
• Under the existing causes for difficulty and peculiarity of circumstances, it is sometimes hazardous to assume the responsibility of punishing the hostile Indians as they deserve.
• Were they to make his shame more poignant by pitying him and punishing him not at all? He flung himself through the doors of the council chamber and halted.
• The Roman soldiers had now adopted a method of punishing the generals whom they disliked, by suffering themselves to be vanquished in the field.
• They have, accordingly, all of them made provisions for punishing slander, which those who have time and inclination resort to for the vindication of their characters.
• Euthyphro answers that there is no difference of opinion, either among gods or men, as to the propriety of punishing a murderer.
• They think that the Government ought not to have allowed such a good opportunity for punishing the Mahdists to slip through its fingers.
• In 1807 one of his armies, led by Marshal Junot, was marching on Lisbon, with the purpose of punishing Portugal for the crime of being a friend of the English realm.
• But others insisted that the gods were punishing Mrs.
• But Spain, while it possessed the kingdom of the Two Sicilies, possessed an even surer method of punishing the Order.
• This was her way of punishing him for his failure to support her in the style she demanded.
• Some States pass laws punishing wife-beating by either imprisonment or a whipping.
• Sicily was then governed by Marcus Marcellus, Sardinia by Marcus Porcius Cato, a man of acknowledged integrity and purity of conduct, but deemed too severe in punishing usury.
• His decision was carried out, and the next day he met Apostle Peter and boasted of his punishing wrath.
• Redress is always to be had against oppression, by punishing the immediate agents.
• The magistrate, nearly dead with fright, at once dismissed the case without punishing the culprit.

Similar words containing PUNISH without suffix ing

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