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Punishing   /pˈənɪʃɪŋ/   Listen
Punishing

adjective
1.
Resulting in punishment.
2.
Characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort.  Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, toilsome.  "A grueling campaign" , "Hard labor" , "Heavy work" , "Heavy going" , "Spent many laborious hours on the project" , "Set a punishing pace"



Punish

verb
(past & past part. punished; pres. part. punishing)
1.
Impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on.  Synonyms: penalise, penalize.  "We had to punish the dog for soiling the floor again"



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"Punishing" Quotes from Famous Books



... sent by Darius under pretense of punishing the Athenians for their burning of Sardis, but in reality to reduce the Greeks under his dominion, and had landed at Marathon and laid waste the country, among the ten commanders appointed by the Athenians for the war, Miltiades was of the greatest name; but the second ...
— The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch - Being Parts of The "Lives" of Plutarch • Plutarch

... the fifteenth century was the excitement in regard to witchcraft, and Pope Innocent the Eighth issued a bull directing the inquisitors to be vigilant in searching out and punishing all guilty of this crime. Forms for the crime were regularly issued. For two hundred and fifty years the church was busy in punishing the impossible crime of witchcraft by burning, hanging and torturing men, women and ...
— Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll, Volume I • Robert Green Ingersoll

... right," said the king. "I will call palaver of all the chiefs. If you say we must not whip girl, we must listen to you as our guest and Ma. But the people will say God's Word be no good, if it keeps the law from punishing those ...
— White Queen of the Cannibals: The Story of Mary Slessor • A. J. Bueltmann

... the same time, laid the cloth, but rather as if she were punishing the table than preparing the family supper; hitting it unnecessarily hard with the knives and forks, slapping it with the plates, dinting it with the salt-cellar, and coming heavily down upon it with ...
— The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargin • Charles Dickens

... 'I have thought over that a good deal. I have often wondered whether I could keep calm enough to say what I mean to say. I think I shall; in these civilised days we have to repress ourselves now and then, but that won't, of course, prevent me from punishing him as he deserves; and, when those nearest and dearest to him know him as he really is, and turn from him, even he will feel that a punishment!' (He turned to Mark again) 'Don't you agree with ...
— The Giant's Robe • F. Anstey


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