punishing

Определение punishing в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь: That inflicts punishment; arduous, gruelling; Present participle of punish; resulting in punishment; "the king imposed a punishing tax"; 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"; 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; resulting in punishment; "the king imposed a punishing tax
punish: To cause great harm to. (a punishing blow)
punish: To cause to suffer for crime or misconduct, to administer disciplinary action
punish: To injure, as by beating; to pommel
punish: {v} to chastise, beat, inflict penalties
punish: To dumb down severely or to the point of uselessness or near-uselessness
punish: with pain or loss; as, to punish murder or treason with death
punish: 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
punish: 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
punish: 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
punish: {f} discipline, penalize
punish: To inflict a penalty for (an offense) upon the offender; to repay, as a fault, crime, etc
punish: To deal with roughly or harshly; chiefly used with regard to a contest; as, our troops punished the enemy
punish: 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"
punish: {f} amerce