Found 4 items, similar to punishing.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak)
Definition: punish
menghukum
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: punish
mendisiplin, menghukum
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: punishing
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,
toilsome]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Punishing
Punish
\Pun"ish\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Punished; p. pr. & vb.
n.
Punishing.] [OE. punischen, F. punir, from L. punire,
punitum, akin to poena punishment, penalty. See
Pain, and
-ish.]
1. 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.
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A greater power
Now ruled him, punished in the shape he sinned.
--Milton.
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2. 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.
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3. To injure, as by beating; to pommel. [Low]
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4. To deal with roughly or harshly; -- chiefly used with
regard to a contest; as, our troops punished the enemy.
[Colloq. or Slang]
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Syn: To chastise; castigate; scourge; whip; lash; correct;
discipline. See
Chasten.
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