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Punish   /pˈənɪʃ/   Listen
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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"Punish" Quotes from Famous Books



... priest—please, Barry—for what you once thought I was? Won't you, Barry? Haven't I had punishment enough? Did you ever lie all day and listen to the wind shriek, waiting for somebody who didn't come—with your dead baby in your arms? Do you want to punish me more? Do you want me to die too—or do you want me to live and tell you why I did the things I did? Do you? Do you want to know who was back of everything? I didn't do it for myself, Barry. It was some ...
— The White Desert • Courtney Ryley Cooper

... punish those who would betray us to Kings," said I, with a sorrowful deliberation, "how much the more must we punish those who would give over the State to the pursuit of useless knowledge"; and so with a gloomy satisfaction sent him off to ...
— In the Days of the Comet • H. G. Wells

... Mr Jones. That is just it. There are laws which enable a man to stop libels and to punish them if it be worth his while to do so." He paused a moment, but Cousin Henry was silent, and he continued, "For many years I was your uncle's lawyer, as was my father before me. I have never been commissioned by you to regard myself as your lawyer, but as circumstances are at present, ...
— Cousin Henry • Anthony Trollope

... need light? Must I undertake to prove that the slave is a man? That point is conceded already. Nobody doubts it. The slave-holders themselves acknowledge it in the enactment of laws for their government. They acknowledge it when they punish disobedience on the part of the slave. There are seventy-two crimes in the State of Virginia, which, if committed by a black man (no matter how ignorant he be), subject him to the punishment of death; while only two of these same crimes will subject a white man to like punishment. What is ...
— Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence - The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of - Slavery to the Present Time • Various

... defraud her of her expectations, gallantly nodded his head.... For all he cared, God might punish England. ...
— Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) - A Novel • Vicente Blasco Ibanez


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