Definition of Punish

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Punish

To deal with roughly or harshly; -- chiefly used with regard to a contest; as, our troops punished the enemy.

To impose a penalty upon; to afflict with pain, loss, or suffering for a crime or fault, either with or without a view to the offender's amendment; to cause to suffer in retribution; to chasten; as, to punish traitors with death; a father punishes his child for willful disobedience.

To inflict a penalty for (an offense) upon the offender; to repay, as a fault, crime, etc., with pain or loss; as, to punish murder or treason with death.

To injure, as by beating; to pommel.

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Punish Quotations

The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.
Napoleon Bonaparte

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
Oscar Wilde

I do not believe that God has imposed suffering upon anyone to punish them or to teach them a lesson.
Ernest Holmes

I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.
Lord Byron

A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more.
Steve Prefontaine

There's a simple way to solve the crime problem: obey the law; punish those who do not.
Rush Limbaugh

Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.
Ambrose Bierce

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
Clarence Darrow

A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
Ovid

To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked.
Thomas Babington

Punish Translations

punish in Danish is straffe
punish in Dutch is bestraffen, straffen
punish in Finnish is rangaista
punish in French is punissent, punir, punissons, punis, punissez
punish in German is bestrafe, strafen, strafen, bestrafen
punish in Italian is castigare, punire
punish in Latin is macto, vindico, muto
punish in Portuguese is puna
punish in Spanish is penar, castigar
punish in Swedish is bestraffa, straffa

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