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to punish
01
to cause someone suffering for breaking the law or having done something they should not have
Transitive: to punish sb
Grammatical Information
action verb
regular
present tense
punish
3rd person singular
punishes
past simple
punished
past participle
punished
Examples
The court decided to punish the thief with a prison sentence for stealing.
Lexical Tree
punishable
punished
punishing
punish
