Punish

Verb

 * 1) To cause to suffer for crime or misconduct, to administer disciplinary action.
 * 2) To cause great harm to. (a punishing blow)
 * 3) To dumb down severely or to the point of uselessness or near-uselessness.

Synonyms

 * (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct) castigate

Derived terms

 * punishable
 * punishment (noun)

Related terms

 * pain

Adverbs for Punish
indiscriminately; summarily; barbarously; cruelly; justly; nominally; sparingly; vindictively; officially; exemplarily; ignominiously; ingeniously; atrociously.

Thesaurus
abuse, admonish, agonize, amerce, avenge, banish, batter, be quits, beat, beat up, birch, bloody, bring to account, bring to book, call to account, cane, cashier, castigate, chasten, chastise, claw, convulse, correct, criticize, crucify, damage, deal with, discipline, draw and quarter, dress down, electrocute, even the score, excommunicate, excruciate, execute, exile, fine, fix, flog, get even with, handicap, hang, harm, harrow, hurt, impale, imprison, incarcerate, inflict upon, injure, kill by inches, knock about, knock around, lacerate, lambaste, lancinate, lash, lock up, macerate, make quits, maltreat, manhandle, martyr, martyrize, masthead, maul, mulct, paddle, penalize, pillory, polish off, put away, put down, rack, rebuke, reprove, revenge, rip, rough up, savage, scarify, scold, scourge, send down, send up, settle the score, settle with, shift, spank, square accounts, swill, take revenge, take to task, tar and feather, thrash, torment, torture, trounce, visit upon, whip, wring

Etymology
From punischen: <  punire: < poena:; see pain:.

Translations

 * Arabic: (`aaqaba)
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,  處罰,  处罚,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek: τιμωρώ
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Irish: cuir pionós ar, pionósaigh
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: (, bassuru),  懲罰する


 * Korean: 벌주다 (beoljuda)
 * Latin:
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:, ukarać
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: chastiar
 * Russian: наказывать (nakázyvat’), наказать (nakazát’) ; карать (karát’) , покарать (pokarát’)
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: казнити
 * Roman: kazniti
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Hungarian: bántalmaz, helybenhagy


 * Norwegian:


 * : наказвам (nakazvam)
 * : straffen, afstraffen
 * : karistama
 * : punire


 * : 벌주다 (beoljuda)
 * : punire
 * : castigar
 * : శిక్షించు (Sikshimchu) (1)
 * : cezalandırmak

Anagrams

 * push in, unship