verb [VN]
1 ~ sb (for sth / for doing sth) to make sb suffer because they have broken the law or done sth wrong:
Those responsible for this crime will be severely punished. * He was punished for refusing to answer their questions. * My parents used to punish me by not letting me watch TV.
2 ~ sth (by / with sth) to set the punishment for a particular crime:
In those days murder was always punished with the death penalty.
3 ~ yourself (for sth) to blame yourself for sth that has happened
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for punish is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does punish appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — punish appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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