Word Meanings - PUNISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. 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

Additional info about word: PUNISH

1. 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. A greater power Now ruled him, punished in the shape he sinned. Milton. 2. To inflict a penalty for upon the offender; to repay, as a fault, crime, etc., with pain or loss; as, to punish murder or treason with death. 3. To injure, as by beating; to pommel. Syn. -- To chastise; castigate; scourge; whip; lash; correct; discipline. See Chasten.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PUNISH)

• Correct Chasten
• punish
• rectify
• amend
• reform
• emend
• redress
• set right
• improve
• Requite
• Repay
• reward
• compensate
• recompense
• remunerate
• satisfy
• retaliate
• avenge
• revenge
• Smite
• Strike
• beat
• buffet
• chastise
• blast
• afflict
• kill
• slay
• surprise
• captivate

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PUNISH)

• Restore
• expand
• swell
• Punish
• misrequite

Related words: (words related to PUNISH)

• AMENDFUL
  Much improving.
• RIGHT-RUNNING
  Straight; direct.
• REPAYMENT
  1. The act of repaying; reimbursement. Jer. Taylor. 2. The money or other thing repaid.
• REFORMALIZE
  To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.
• REFORMATIVE
  Forming again; having the quality of renewing form; reformatory. Good.
• REWARDFUL
  Yielding reward.
• PUNISHER
  One who inflicts punishment.
• RETALIATE
  To return like for like; specifically, to return evil for evil; as, to retaliate upon an enemy.
• CORRECTLY
  In a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error.
• BLASTMENT
  A sudden stroke or injury produced by some destructive cause. Shak.
• BLAST
  1. To be blighted or withered; as, the bud blasted in the blossom. 2. To blow; to blow on a trumpet. Toke his blake trumpe faste And gan to puffen and to blaste. Chaucer.
• EXPAND
  To become widely opened, spread apart, dilated, distended, or enlarged; as, flowers expand in the spring; metals expand by heat; the heart expands with joy. Dryden.
• RIGHTEOUSNESS
  The state of being right with God; justification; the work of Christ, which is the ground justification. There are two kinds of Christian righteousness: the one without us, which we have by imputation; the other in us, which consisteth of faith,
• AFFLICTIVELY
  In an afflictive manner.
• CAPTIVATE
  1. To take prisoner; to capture; to subdue. Their woes whom fortune captivates. Shak. 2. To acquire ascendancy over by reason of some art or attraction; to fascinate; to charm; as, Cleopatra captivated Antony; the orator captivated all hearts.
• AVENGERESS
  A female avenger. Spenser.
• RIGHT
  1. In a right manner. 2. In a right or straight line; directly; hence; straightway; immediately; next; as, he stood right before me; it went right to the mark; he came right out; he followed right after the guide. Unto Dian's temple goeth
• CHASTISER
  One who chastises; a punisher; a corrector. Jer. Taylor. The chastiser of the rich. Burke.
• AFFLICTIVE
  Giving pain; causing continued or repeated pain or grief; distressing. "Jove's afflictive hand." Pope. Spreads slow disease, and darts afflictive pain. Prior.
• IMPROVER
  One who, or that which, improves.
• PREFORM
  To form beforehand, or for special ends. "Their natures and preformed faculties. " Shak.
• BRIGHT
  See I
• REWARD
  To give in return, whether good or evil; -- commonly in a good sense; to requite; to recompense; to repay; to compensate. After the deed that is done, one doom shall reward, Mercy or no mercy as truth will accord. Piers Plowman. Thou hast rewarded
• SHOREWARD
  Toward the shore.
• CARTWRIGHT
  An artificer who makes carts; a cart maker.
• DIPLOBLASTIC
  Characterizing the ovum when it has two primary germinal layers.
• FRIGHTFUL
  1. Full of fright; affrighted; frightened. See how the frightful herds run from the wood. W. Browne. 2. Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance. Syn.
• SPRIGHTLY
  Sprightlike, or spiritlike; lively; brisk; animated; vigorous; airy; gay; as, a sprightly youth; a sprightly air; a sprightly dance. "Sprightly wit and love inspires." Dryden. The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green. Pope.
• SHRIGHT
  imp. & p. p. of Shriek. She cried alway and shright. Chaucer.
• NEMATOBLAST
  A spermatocyte or spermoblast.