Usually means: Inflict penalty for an offense.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. punish: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. punish: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. punish: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. punish: Collins English Dictionary
  5. punish: Vocabulary.com
  6. Punish, punish: Wordnik
  7. punish: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. punish: Wiktionary
  9. punish: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. punish: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. punish: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. punish: Dictionary.com
  13. punish: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. punish: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Punish: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Punish: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. punish: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. punish: Rhymezone
  19. punish: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. punish: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. punish: Free Dictionary
  22. punish: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. punish: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. punish: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. punish: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. punish: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. punish: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. punish: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. punish: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. punish: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See punishability as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To cause (a child, student, or someone else being looked after) to suffer for crime or misconduct, to administer disciplinary action, typically by an authority or a person in authority (for example: a parent, teacher, or police officer).
verb:  (transitive, figuratively) To treat harshly and unfairly.
verb:  (transitive, colloquial) To handle or beat severely; to maul.
verb:  (transitive, colloquial) To consume a large quantity of.

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