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pun·ish

(pŭn′ĭsh)

v. pun·ished, pun·ish·ing, pun·ish·es

v.tr.

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

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

3. To handle or use roughly; damage or hurt: My boots were punished by our long trek through the desert.

v.intr.

To exact or mete out punishment.

[Middle English punissen, punishen, from Old French punir, puniss-, from Latin poenīre, pūnīre, from poena, punishment, from Greek poinē; see k^wei- in Indo-European roots.]

pun′ish·a·bil′i·ty n.

pun′ish·a·ble adj.

pun′ish·er n.

Synonyms: punish, chastise, discipline, castigate, penalize
These verbs mean to subject a person to something negative for an offense, sin, or fault. Punish is the least specific: The principal punished the students who were caught cheating. Chastise historically has entailed corporal punishment but now usually involves a verbal rebuke as a means of effecting improvement in behavior: The sarcastic child was roundly chastised for insolence. Discipline stresses punishment inflicted by an authority in order to control or to eliminate unacceptable conduct: The worker was disciplined for insubordination. Castigate means to censure or criticize severely, often in public: The judge castigated the attorney for badgering the witness. Penalize usually implies the forfeiture of money or of a privilege or gain because rules or regulations have been broken: Those who file their income-tax returns late will be penalized.

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punishable

(ˈpʌnɪʃəbəl)

adj

liable to be punished or deserving of punishment

ˌpunishaˈbility n

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pun•ish•a•ble

(ˈpʌn ɪ ʃə bəl)

adj.

liable to or deserving punishment.

[1375–1425]

pun`ish•a•bil′i•ty, n.

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Adj.	1.	punishable - liable to or deserving punishment; "punishable offenses" guilty - responsible for or chargeable with a reprehensible act; "guilty of murder"; "the guilty person"; "secret guilty deeds"
	2.	punishable - subject to punishment by law; "a penal offense" penal illegal - prohibited by law or by official or accepted rules; "an illegal chess move"

punishable

adjective culpable, criminal, chargeable, indictable, blameworthy, convictable make slavery a punishable offence

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Translations

مُسْتَوْجِب العِقاب

trestný

strafbar

strafbar

punissable

büntetendõ

refsiverîur

punibile

strafbaar

cezalandırılabilircezayı gerektirir

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punishable

[ˈpʌnɪʃəbl] ADJ (gen) → punible (Jur) → punible, sancionable
a punishable offence → una infracción penada or sancionada por la ley
a crime punishable by death → un delito castigado con la pena de muerte

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punishable

[ˈpʌnɪʃəb^əl] adj → punissable

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punishable

adj → strafbar; this offence (Brit) or offense (US) is punishable by 2 years’ imprisonment → dieses Verbrechen wird mit 2 Jahren Gefängnis bestraft; it is a punishable offence (Brit) or offense (US) → es ist strafbar

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punishable

[ˈpʌnɪʃəbl] adj → punibile

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punish

(ˈpaniʃ) verb

1. to cause to suffer for a crime or fault. He was punished for stealing the money.

2. to give punishment for. The teacher punishes disobedience.

ˈpunishable adjective

(of offences etc) able or likely to be punished by law. Driving without a licence is a punishable offence.

ˈpunishment noun

1. the act of punishing or process of being punished.

2. suffering, or a penalty, imposed for a crime, fault etc. He was sent to prison for two years as (a) punishment.

punitive (ˈpjuːnətiv) adjective

giving punishment.

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When physical passion is involved, there is a definite name for such behaviour--flirting--and if carried far enough it is punishable by law.

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'Blue Laws,' in virtue whereof, among other enlightened provisions, any citizen who could be proved to have kissed his wife on Sunday, was punishable, I believe, with the stocks.

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We sent a sheik to arrest him if he had the authority, or to warn him, if he had not, that by the laws of Egypt the crime he was attempting to commit was punishable with imprisonment or the bastinado.

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'Such as we call them, my dear,' says she, 'but they are more properly called slaves.' Or, secondly, such as are transported from Newgate and other prisons, after having been found guilty of felony and other crimes punishable with death.

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He then takes the criminal into custody till he hath made satisfaction; but if it be a crime punishable with death he is delivered over to the prosecutor, who may put him to death at his own discretion.

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In being protected, on the other hand, in his life and in his limbs, against the violence of all others, even the master of his labor and his liberty; and in being punishable himself for all violence committed against others -- the slave is no less evidently regarded by the law as a member of the society, not as a part of the irrational creation; as a moral person, not as a mere article of property.

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"If you mean by FEELING," said the King, "approaching so close as to leave no space between two individuals, know, Stranger, that this offence is punishable in my dominions by death.

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As to my cousin Sophia, I can't imagine her to be such a simpleton as to have the least scruple on such an account, or to conceive any harm in punishing one of these haggs for the many mischiefs they bring upon families by their tragi-comic passions; for which I think it is a pity they are not punishable by law.

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And I have gone there, and come back; and now you may go there, for no longer is it high treason, punishable by disgrace or death, to cross 30d or 175d.

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You have broken your chair, and made a great disturbance; that is an offense punishable by imprisonment in one of the lower dungeons.

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He left it contrary to my wish and command; and in the days of Alfred that would have been termed disobedience ay, and a crime severely punishable.''

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That resolution is a law, and resistance to it punishable. But no favorable circumstances palliate or atone for the disadvantages of dissension in the executive department.