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Definition of punish

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Punish (v. t.) 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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Impunity :: Impunity (n.) Exemption or freedom from punishment, harm, or loss..

Requite :: Requite (v. t.) To repay; in a good sense, to recompense; to return (an equivalent) in good; to reward; in a bad sense, to retaliate; to return (evil) for evil; to punish..

Discipline :: Discipline (n.) Self-inflicted and voluntary corporal punishment, as penance, or otherwise; specifically, a penitential scourge..

Malefactor :: Malefactor (n.) An evil doer; one who commits a crime; one subject to public prosecution and punishment; a criminal.

Reprobation :: Reprobation (n.) The predestination of a certain number of the human race as reprobates, or objects of condemnation and punishment..

Commutation :: Commutation (n.) The change of a penalty or punishment by the pardoning power of the State; as, the commutation of a sentence of death to banishment or imprisonment..

Inquisition :: Inquisition (n.) A court or tribunal for the examination and punishment of heretics, fully established by Pope Gregory IX. in 1235. Its operations were chiefly confined to Spain, Portugal, and their dependencies, and a part of Italy..

Sentence :: Sentence (v. t.) To pass or pronounce judgment upon; to doom; to condemn to punishment; to prescribe the punishment of.

Swinge :: Swinge (v. t.) To beat soundly; to whip; to chastise; to punish.

Garrote :: Garrote (n.) A Spanish mode of execution by strangulation, with an iron collar affixed to a post and tightened by a screw until life become extinct; also, the instrument by means of which the punishment is inflicted..

Extenuation :: Extenuation (n.) The act of axtenuating or the state of being extenuated; the act of making thin, slender, or lean, or of palliating; diminishing, or lessening; palliation, as of a crime; mitigation, as of punishment..

Damn :: Damn (v. t.) To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment; to sentence; to censure.

Disciple :: Disciple (v. t.) To punish; to discipline.

Impune :: Impune (a.) Unpunished.

Damned :: Damned (a.) Sentenced to punishment in a future state; condemned; consigned to perdition.

Pillory :: Pillory (v. t.) To set in, or punish with, the pillory..

Horse :: Horse (n.) A frame of timber, shaped like a horse, on which soldiers were made to ride for punishment..

Amenable :: Amenable (a.) Liable to be brought to account or punishment; answerable; responsible; accountable; as, amenable to law..

Penitentiary :: Penitentiary (a.) Used for punishment, discipline, and reformation..

Felony :: Felony (n.) A heinous crime; especially, a crime punishable by death or imprisonment..