Word.ws English Dictionary

outpunishes

outpunishes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of outpunish.

Meaning of outpunish

Verb

outpunish (third-person singular simple present outpunishes, present participle outpunishing, simple past and past participle outpunished)

  1. (rare, transitive) To surpass in punishing.
    • But if the threat is merely unpleasant rather than painful, the first person may increase the intensity of his or her negative acts too, trying as it were to outpunish the punisher.1986, Jeanne P. Deschner, The hitting habit: anger control for battering couples, page 13

Questions about outpunishes

What is outpunishes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Outpunishes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of outpunish.

Words near outpunishes in the dictionary

  1. outpunched
  2. outpunches
  3. outpunching
  4. outpunish
  5. outpunished
  6. outpunishes
  7. outpunishing
  8. outpurchase
  9. outpurchased
  10. outpurchases
  11. outpurchasing

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: outpunishes (page history and authors); outpunish (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “outpunishes.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/outpunishes. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.