Usually means: Subject to penalty or consequences.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word punishable:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. punishable: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. punishable: Merriam-Webster
  3. punishable: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. punishable: Collins English Dictionary
  5. punishable: Vocabulary.com
  6. Punishable, punishable: Wordnik
  7. punishable: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. punishable: Wiktionary
  9. punishable: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. punishable: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. punishable: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Punishable, punishable: Dictionary.com
  13. punishable: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Punishable: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. punishable: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. punishable: Rhymezone
  17. Punishable: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. punishable: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. punishable: FreeDictionary.org
  20. punishable: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. punishable: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. punishable: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. punishable: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. punishable: Idioms

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▸ adjective:  Subject to punishment; appropriate for punishment.

Similar:
penal, guilty, illegal, chastisable, castigable, penalizable, finable, reprimandable, disciplinable, mortal, more...

Opposite:
excusable, justifiable, defensible

Phrases:
act punishable by law, not punishable, more...

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Similar:
penal, guilty, illegal, chastisable, castigable, penalizable, finable, reprimandable, disciplinable, mortal, more...

Opposite:
excusable, justifiable, defensible

Phrases:
act punishable by law, not punishable, more...



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