punish

Definition

  • verb: to make (someone) suffer for a crime or for bad behavior
  • verb: to impose a penalty on for a fault, offense, or violation
  • synonyms: correct, scourge, chastise

Examples

  • I don't understand why women continue to 'punish' [='damage'] their feet by wearing high-heeled shoes.

  • The law states that treason shall be 'punished' by death. [=that the punishment for treason is death]

  • I think that murderers should be 'punished' by/with life imprisonment.

Movie quotes

  • (..) dumb bunny, but we are good at multiplying. Anyway, according to your tax forms, you reported, let me see here, zero! Unfortunately, lying on a... federal form is a punishable offense. Five years jail time. Well, it's my word against yours. ' bucks a day, fluff, days a year, since I was twelve.' (..)
    2016 Zootopia
  • (..) and each man jack of you here has proved his mettle a hundred times over and a hundred times again! Suffered, I have! Punished, we were, the lot of us. Disproportionate to our crime! Here it is! The cursed treasure of Cortes himself. (..)
    2003 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
  • (..) So the heathen gods placed upon the gold a terrible curse. Any mortal that removes but a single piece from that stone chest shall be punished for eternity. I hardly believe in ghost stories anymore, Captain. Aye. That's exactly what I thought when we were told the tale. (..)
    2003 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl