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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
Composition
Simple
Action verb
Regular
Present tense
punish
3rd person singular
punishes
Present participle
punishing
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
