Punish
To deal with roughly or harshly; -- chiefly used with regard to a contest; as, our troops punished the enemy.
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.
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.
To injure, as by beating; to pommel.
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Punish Quotations
When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
Oscar Wilde
A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more.
Steve Prefontaine
The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.
Ambrose Bierce
The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
Herodotus
The purpose of random testing is not to catch, punish, or expose students who use drugs, but to save their lives and discover abuse problems early so that students can grow up and learn in a drug-free environment.
John Walters
I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.
Lord Byron
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
Clarence Darrow
In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
Michel Foucault
There's a simple way to solve the crime problem: obey the law; punish those who do not.
Rush Limbaugh
Punish Translations
punish in Danish is straffe
punish in Dutch is bestraffen, straffen
punish in Finnish is rangaista
punish in French is punissent, punir, punissons, punis, punissez
punish in German is bestrafe, strafen, strafen, bestrafen
punish in Italian is castigare, punire
punish in Latin is macto, vindico, muto
punish in Portuguese is puna
punish in Spanish is penar, castigar
punish in Swedish is bestraffa, straffa
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