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v. To subject to a penalty for an offense, sin, or fault.

v. To inflict a penalty for (an offense).

v. To handle roughly; hurt: My boots were punished by our long trek through the desert.

verb-intransitive. To exact or mete out punishment.

v. To cause to suffer for crime or misconduct, to administer disciplinary action.

v. To cause great harm to. (a punishing blow)

v. To dumb down severely or to the point of uselessness or near-uselessness.

v. 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

v. To inflict a penalty for (an offense) upon the offender; to repay, as a fault, crime, etc., with pain or loss.

v. To injure, as by beating; to pommel.

v. To deal with roughly or harshly; -- chiefly used with regard to a contest.

To inflict a penalty on; visit judicially with pain, loss, confinement, death, or other penalty; castigate; chastise.

To reward or visit with pain or suffering inflicted on the offender: applied to the crime or offense: as, to punish murder or theft.

To handle severely: as, to punish an opponent in a boxing-match or a pitcher in a baseball game; to punish (that is, to-stimulate by whip or spur) a horse in running a race.

To make a considerable inroad on; make away with a good quantity of.

Synonyms Chasten, etc. (see chastise), scourge, whip, lash, correct, discipline.

v. impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on

"_punish_ sin while at the same time He _pardons_ it, -- can punish it in the Substitute while He pardons it in the sinner, -- it is not until he is enabled to apprehend the doctrine of _vicarious_ atonement, that his doubts and fears respecting the possibility and reality of the Divine mercy are removed."

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