Word Meaning

Meaning of "punish" and the crossword clue

- Castigate
- Discipline
- Impose a penalty on
- Inflict penalty
- Mete out
- Penalise
- Push to keep in silly sentence
- reprove
- 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.