Definitions for punishing

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punishing pun·ish·ing

Spelling: [puhn-i-shing]

IPA: /ˈpʌn ɪ ʃɪŋ/

Punishing is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 166 anagrams from letters in punishing (ghiinnpsu).

Definitions for punishing

adjective

1. causing or characterized by harsh or injurious treatment; severe; brutal:

verb (used with object)

1. to subject to pain, loss, confinement, death, etc., as a penalty for some offense, transgression, or fault:
2. to inflict a penalty for (an offense, fault, etc.):
3. to handle severely or roughly, as in a fight.
4. to put to painful exertion, as a horse in racing.
5. Informal. to make a heavy inroad on; deplete:

verb (used without object)

1. to inflict punishment.

Origin of punishing

1425-75; late Middle English punyesand; see punish, -ing²

Examples for punishing

The matter of discovering and punishing the culprit devolved on Lambert alone.

Upon his return, the King was for punishing such an offence as this.

I have lived a very nasty, horrible life, and now God is punishing me as I deserve.

The king set about punishing Marshal, opposing his attempts to establish his family in their lands in Ireland and Wales.

Then you are likely to give up your plan of punishing the man for defaming and degrading you?

It seems the universe is punishing, violent, random, chaos, and so of course you become controlling.

The Feds are more interesting in finding out who is doing the recruiting rather than punishing those being recruited.

So punishing Putin, not the people of Russia, should be our primary aim.

And his Socialist Party candidates predictably failed, a punishing defeat surprising only in its scope.

But if the former were blameless, where is the justice of punishing them for the faults of others?