Punish /(?)/

Pun·ish

Punish

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Punished; p. pr. & vb. n. Punishing

  1. 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.
    A greater power Now ruled him, punished in the shape he sinned.
  2. 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.
  3. To injure, as by beating; to pommel. [Low]
  4. To deal with roughly or harshly; -- chiefly used with regard to a contest; as, our troops punished the enemy. [Colloq. or Slang]