punish
/ˈpʌnɪʃ/ verb B1- To cause (a child, student, or someone else being looked after, or a suspect or criminal) to suffer for crime or misconduct, to administer disciplinary action, typically by an authority or a person in authority (for example: a parent, teacher, or police officer). · If a prince violates the law, then he must be punished like an ordinary person.
- To treat harshly and unfairly.
- To handle or beat severely; to maul.
- To consume a large quantity of.
He/she/it punishes · Past punished · Past participle punished · -ing form punishing
Verb forms
- Base form
- punish
- He/she/it
- punishes
- Past
- punished
- Past participle
- punished
- -ing form
- punishing
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All his emotion then burst forth; he cast himself on the ground, weeping bitterly, and asking himself what crime he had committed that he was thus punished.
“Continue to seek for this man, sir,” said the king to the minister of police; “for if, as I am all but convinced, General Quesnel, who would have been so useful to us at this moment, has been murdered, his assassins, Bonapartists or not, shall be cruelly punished.” It required all Villefort’s coolness not to betray the terror with which this declaration of the king inspired him.
Among these men there was a stringent code of honour, any infringement of which was punished by death.
And how was she to punish her?
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