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Synonyms for punish
ˈpʌn ɪʃpun·ish
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Wiktionary
punishverb
Synonyms:
castigatepunishverb
To cause to suffer for crime or misconduct, to administer disciplinary action.
Synonyms:
castigatepunishverb
To cause great harm to. (a punishing blow)
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castigatepunishverb
To dumb down severely or to the point of uselessness or near-uselessness.
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castigate
English Synonyms and Antonyms
punish
Avenge and revenge, once close synonyms, are now far apart in meaning. To avenge is to visit some offense with punishment, in order to vindicate the righteous, or to uphold and illustrate the right by the suffering or destruction of the wicked. "And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian," Acts vii, 24. To revenge is to inflict harm or suffering upon another through personal anger and resentment at something done to ourselves. Avenge is unselfish; revenge is selfish. Revenge, according to present usage, could not be said of God. To retaliate may be necessary for self-defense, without the idea of revenge. Compare REVENGE.
Synonyms:
avenge, retaliate, revenge, vindicate, visitPreposition:
Avenge on or upon (rarely, avenge oneself of) a wrong-doer.
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
punish
Synonyms:
chastise, castigate, chasten, correct, whip, scourgeAntonyms:
reward, recompense, remunerate, indemnify
Princeton's WordNet
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Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
punishverb
Synonyms:
chastise, castigate, chasten, discipline
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "punish":
punishing, penalise, penalize, sanction, punishment, suppress, chastise, flog, smite, criminalize, suppression, repress, penalties
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Words popularity by usage frequency
| ranking | word | |
|---|---|---|
| #399 | visit | |
| #1847 | correct | |
| #7790 | punishment | |
| #7997 | penalties | |
| #8299 | revenge | |
| #12650 | suppression | |
| #12767 | whip | |
| #16683 | suppress | |
| #17439 | punish | |
| #19712 | sanction | |
| #32471 | punishing | |
| #35321 | scourge | |
| #47557 | avenge | |
| #55596 | retaliate | |
| #56041 | repress | |
| #56460 | smite | |
| #58763 | penalize | |
| #62904 | flog | |
| #80199 | vindicate | |
| #84851 | criminalize | |
| #105258 | chastise | |
| #122695 | penalise | |
| #184683 | castigate | |
| #246567 | chasten |
How to use punish in a sentence?
I should not hold off, we should go forward as expeditiously as possible and we should do so because on yesterday we convicted the President... The condemnation was a conviction. Today we have the opportunity to punish, as a result of what we did yesterday, the President suffers no harm, he doesn't have to pay any fine, he's not going to lose his job. But today we have the opportunity to punish.
Superintendent Michael Rossi Jr.:
This is not a gotcha-type thing, it's an educational, restorative and holistic response. We're not looking to punish people.
Be in no doubt: under the government's proposal our fingers would still be caught in this mangle and the EU would use it ruthlessly to punish us for leaving and handicap our future competitiveness.
This bill would punish success in the next generation of innovative startups and prevent them from achieving their full potential.
It felt weird being in a house with my dad and his girlfriend with none of my brothers, i was just so alone. He was a truck driver, so it was very seldom that we saw him. But that’s how he paid the bills. I also became really sensitive about my weight and the things that I ate. I think it was a way to punish Shasta Groene. I developed an eating disorder at a very young age. If I ate, I made Shasta Groene throw up. I then started self-harming. I was hiding a lot from my dad. And then he got throat cancer. He almost died from it. So much has happened that I never fully got to heal.
Translations for punish
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- عاقبArabic
- пакара́ць, кара́цьBelarusian
- нака́звам, нака́жаBulgarian
- castigar, punirCatalan, Valencian
- potrestat, trestatCzech
- straffeDanish
- bestrafen, strafenGerman
- τιμωρώGreek
- puniEsperanto
- castigar, punirSpanish
- karistamaEstonian
- مجازات کردن, ادب کردنPersian
- rangaistaFinnish
- punir, châtierFrench
- cuir pionós ar, pionósaighIrish
- punir, castigarGalician
- सज़ा देनाHindi
- büntet, helybenhagy, bántalmaz, megbüntetHungarian
- punire, castigareItalian
- 懲罰, 罰するJapanese
- 징벌하다, 벌주다Korean
- punireLatin
- казни, казнуваMacedonian
- bestraffen, straffen, afstraffenDutch
- straffe, skadeNorwegian
- castigar, punirOccitan
- karać, ukaraćPolish
- castigar, punirPortuguese
- maqakuyQuechua
- chastiarRomansh
- pedepsiRomanian
- нака́зывать, покара́ть, кара́ть, наказа́тьRussian
- castigae, castigare, casticare, castigaiSardinian
- kȁzniti, ка̏знитиSerbo-Croatian
- trestať, potrestaťSlovak
- kaznovatiSlovene
- straffaSwedish
- శిక్షించుTelugu
- покара́ти, нака́зувати, наказа́ти, кара́тиUkrainian
- trừng phạt, phạtVietnamese
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