discipline, penalize
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Punishing Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(p. pr. & vb. n.)
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. Aboutof Punish
punishing
adj
1. resulting in punishment; "the king imposed a punishing tax"
2. 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, labourious, toilsome]
Adjective
1. resulting in punishment; "the king imposed a punishing tax"
(participle) punish, penalize, penalise
2. 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"
(synonym) arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, toilsome
(similar) effortful
Verb
1. 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"
(synonym) penalize, penalise
(hyponym) revenge, avenge, retaliate
(entail) estimate, gauge, approximate, guess, judge
(derivation) punishment, penalty, penalization, penalisation
Punishing Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Punishment is the authoritative imposition of something negative or unpleasant on a person or animal in response to behavior deemed wrong by an individual or group. The authority may be either a group or a single person, and punishment may be carried out formally under a system of law or informally in other kinds of social settings such as within a family. Negative consequences that are not authorized or that are administered without a breach of rules are not considered to be punishment as defined here. The study and practice of the punishment of crimes, particularly as it applies to imprisonment, is called penology, or, often in modern texts, corrections; in this context, the punishment process is euphemistically called "correctional process".
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