PENALIZE meaning: Impose punishment for rule violation

We found 28 dictionaries that define the word Penalize:

General (23 matching dictionaries)

penalize: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
penalize: Merriam-Webster
penalize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
penalize: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
penalize: Collins English Dictionary
penalize: Vocabulary.com
Penalize, penalize: Wordnik
penalize: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
penalize: Wiktionary
penalize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
penalize: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
penalize: Infoplease Dictionary
Penalize, penalize: Dictionary.com
penalize: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Penalize: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
penalize: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
penalize: Rhymezone
penalize: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
penalize: FreeDictionary.org
penalize: Mnemonic Dictionary
penalize: TheFreeDictionary.com

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penalize: Legal dictionary
penalize: Financial dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

penalize: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)

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penalize: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (penalize)

▸ verb: (transitive) To subject to a penalty, especially for the infringement of a rule or regulation.
▸ verb: (transitive, sports) To impose a handicap on.

Opposite:

reward, incentivize, encourage, praise

Types:

fine, charge, sentence, punish, more...

Phrases:

penalize by fining, more...

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