punish

Definition of punish in English English dictionary: To cause great harm to. (a punishing blow); To cause to suffer for crime or misconduct, to administer disciplinary action; To dumb down severely or to the point of uselessness or near-uselessness; To injure, as by beating; to pommel; {v} to chastise, beat, inflict penalties; with pain or loss; as, to punish murder or treason with death; To punish someone means to make them suffer in some way because they have done something wrong. According to present law, the authorities can only punish smugglers with small fines Don't punish your child for being honest; 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 punish a crime means to punish anyone who commits that crime. The government voted to punish corruption in sport with up to four years in jail; {f} discipline, penalize; To inflict a penalty for (an offense) upon the offender; to repay, as a fault, crime, etc; To deal with roughly or harshly; chiefly used with regard to a contest; as, our troops punished the enemy; impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on; "The students were penalized for showing up late for class"; "we had to punish the dog for soiling the floor again"; {f} amerce
punished: Simple past tense and past participle of punish
punished: That has been the object of punishment
punishing: That inflicts punishment
punishing: arduous, gruelling
punishment: A suffering by pain or loss imposed as retribution
punishment: Any treatment or experience so harsh it feels like being punished
punishment: The act or process of punishing, imposing and/or applying a sanction
punishment: A penalty to punish wrongdoing, especially for crime
to punish: castigate
Punishment: punition
punishable: {a} worthy or capable of punishment
punisher: {n} one who inflicts punishment
punishment: {n} any thing inflicted for a crime
To punish: punice
punishable: liable to or deserving punishment; "punishable offenses"
punishable: Able to be punished; appropriate for punishment
punishable: {s} liable to be punished, may be punished
punishable: subject to punishment by law; "a penal offense"
punishable: liable to or deserving punishment; "punishable offenses
punishable: If a crime is punishable in a particular way, anyone who commits it is punished in that way. Treason in this country is still punishable by death. in law, a punishable act can be punished
punishable: Deserving of, or liable to, punishment; capable of being punished by law or right; said of person or offenses
punished: subjected to a penalty (as pain or shame or restraint or loss) for an offense or fault or in order to coerce some behavior (as a confession or obedience)
punished: past of punish
punisher: One who punishes
punisher: A consequent stimulus that reduces the probability a behavior will occur
punisher: {i} one who penalizes, chastiser, one who disciplines
punisher: Any stimulus whose presence after a behavior decreases the likelihood that that behavior will occur
punisher: a stimulus that follows a behaviour and decreases the likelihood that the behaviour will be repeated
punishes: third-person singular of punish
punishing: resulting in punishment; "the king imposed a punishing tax"
punishing: present participle of punish
punishing: 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"
punishing: A punishing schedule, activity, or experience requires a lot of physical effort and makes you very tired or weak. He claimed his punishing work schedule had made him resort to taking the drug. difficult, tiring, or extreme
punishing: resulting in punishment; "the king imposed a punishing tax
punishingly: in a punishing manner
punishment: The New Testament lays down the general principles of good government, but contains no code of laws for the punishment of offenders Punishment proceeds on the principle that there is an eternal distinction between right and wrong, and that this distinction must be maintained for its own sake It is not primarily intended for the reformation of criminals, nor for the purpose of deterring others from sin These results may be gained, but crime in itself demands punishment (See MURDER; THEFT )
punishment: Punishment is the act of punishing someone or of being punished. a group which campaigns against the physical punishment of children I have no doubt that the man is guilty and that he deserves punishment
punishment: Deliberate infliction of harm as a moral sanction against offenders Punishment may be understood, designed, and applied according to any of the three major varieties of normative theory: retribution and reparation focus on satisfaction of duties, deterrence and prevention on securing desirable outcomes, and reform and rehabilitation on improving moral character Recommended Reading: Nigel Walker, Why Punish? (Oxford, 1991) {at Amazon com}; David A Hoekema, Rights and Wrongs: Coercion, Punishment and the State (Susquehanna, 1987) {at Amazon com}; Punishment, ed by John Simmons, Marshall En, Joshua Cohen, and Thomas Scanlon (Princeton, 1994) {at Amazon com}; Louis P Pojman and Jeffrey Reiman, The Death Penalty (Rowman & Littlefield, 1998) {at Amazon com}; and David Garland, Punishment and Modern Society: A Study in Social Theory (Chicago, 1993) {at Amazon com} Also see SEP, OCP, Hugo Adam Bedau, IEP, noesis, and BGHT
punishment: A consequent stimulus that reduces the probability a behavior will occur
punishment: Presentation of an aversive event or removal of a positive event following a response which decreases the frequency of that response
punishment: an event that immediately follows a behavior and results in that behavior being reduced or eliminated
punishment: Remember positive and negative reinforcement increasethe responses they follow Punishment is likely to decrease those responses
punishment: An instrumental conditioning procedure in which an aversive stimulus is made contingent on a response (Anderson)
punishment: A process for weakening behavior which can take one of two forms First, an aversive or noxious stimulus can be made contingent on the response to be weakened Second, a positively reinforcing stimulus can be withheld or removed contingent on the response to be weakened
punishment: the act of punishing
punishment: A punishment is a particular way of punishing someone. The government is proposing tougher punishments for officials convicted of corruption
punishment: A stimulus that decreases the probability that a previous behavior will occur again
punishment: Punishment is a term from Psychological Learning Theory that has a precise meaning; it refers to something that causes a behavior to lessen in intensity There is nothing that is intrinsically punishing A thing is called punishing if, when it is applied, it results in the reduction of behavior that you want to reduce
punishment: The punishment for failure to comply with a sentence or pay a fine on time is one degree higher than the original sentence or fine For disrupting court proceeedings, the minimum sentence is a minor fine, and the maximum is a major fine For violating a court order or injunction, the minimum sentence is a minor fine, and there is no maximum sentence
punishment: The application of an aversive stimulus following some behavior designed to decrease the probability of that behavior
punishment: You can use punishment to refer to severe physical treatment of any kind. Don't expect these types of boot to take the punishment that gardening will give them. see also capital punishment, corporal punishment. capital punishment corporal punishment strong and hard punishment
punishment: any event whose presence decreases the likelihood that ongoing behaviour will recur
punishment: A negative consequence of a behavior, which leads to a decrease in the frequency of the behavior that produces it (p 211)
punishment: Penalty for wrongdoing, especially for crime
punishment: A consequence that decreases the future probability of a response One type of punishment involves thepresentation of a nonprefered event following the misbehavior A second type of punishment involves the withdrawal of a positive reinforcer following the misbehavior
punishment: The least effective way of changing someone's behaviour or improving their performance
punishment: A penalty inflicted by a court of justice on a convicted offender as a just retribution, and incidentally for the purposes of reformation and prevention
punishment: The adding of a negative stimulus in order to decrease a response (e g , spanking a child to decrease negative behavior)
punishment: Any pain, suffering, or loss inflicted on a person because of a crime or offense
punishment: Severe, rough, or disastrous treatment
punishment: The application of an aversive stimulus following some behavior designed to decrease the probability of that behavior [2]
punishment: {i} discipline, penalty; fine, financial penalty
punishment: Anything that decreases the likelihood of a response being offered
punishment: wrath