punish

punish is a 6-letter English word with 4 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 13 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. 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.
2. transitive verb. 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.
3. transitive verb. To injure, as by beating; to pommel.
4. verb. impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on

   "The students were penalized for showing up late for class"

   "we had to punish the dog for soiling the floor again"

   Synonyms: penalise, penalize

Synonyms

penalise, penalize

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in punish:

inpush, unship

Common word forms

punished, punisher, punishes, punishing, punishable, punishment

Words from these letters

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