Usually means: Inflicting penalties for offenses committed.
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  1. punishing: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. punishing: Merriam-Webster
  3. punishing: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. punishing: Collins English Dictionary
  5. punishing: Vocabulary.com
  6. Punishing, punishing: Wordnik
  7. punishing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. punishing: Wiktionary
  9. punishing: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Punishing, punishing: Dictionary.com
  11. punishing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Punishing: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Punishing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. punishing: Rhymezone
  15. Punishing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. punishing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. punishing: FreeDictionary.org
  18. punishing: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. punishing: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. punishing: Legal dictionary

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  1. punishing: Encyclopedia

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  1. punishing: Idioms

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▸ adjective:  That punishes physically and/or mentally; arduous, gruelling, demanding.
▸ adjective:  (figuratively) Debilitating, harsh.
▸ noun:  Punishment.

Similar:
effortful, labourious, laborious, toilsome, arduous, grueling, backbreaking, gruelling, heavy, hard, more...

Opposite:
rewarding, pardoning, forgiving, excusing

Types:
penal, punitive, retributive, more...

Phrases:
self punishing, leather strap for punishing, more...

Adjectives:
more, less, self, worth, severe, effectual, eternal, rewarding, intrinsically, over, speedy

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Similar:
effortful, labourious, laborious, toilsome, arduous, grueling, backbreaking, gruelling, heavy, hard, more...

Opposite:
rewarding, pardoning, forgiving, excusing

Types:
penal, punitive, retributive, more...

Phrases:
self punishing, leather strap for punishing, more...

Adjectives:
more, less, self, worth, severe, effectual, eternal, rewarding, intrinsically, over, speedy

Colors:
    dark red,     black,     deep purple,     blood red,     charcoal, more...



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