Plural of punishment
regular plural
The plural of punishment is punishments.
Forms of punishment
| Singular | punishment /ˈpʌnɪʃmənt/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | punishments |
| Countable | countable and uncountable |
Punishments in a sentence
- Mirror punishments are often justified by the Biblical phrase 'an eye for an eye'.From the entry mirror punishment
- Career criminals laugh at minor punishments like those.From the entry laugh at
- Jerry Falwell's right-wing fundamentalist publication "Moral Majority Inc." editorialized that AIDS was God's "deserved punishments" against homosexuals.2007 May 26, Leslie Feinberg, “Care & prevention, not repression”, in Workers World. From the entry editorialize
- To keelhaul is the cruelest and most dangerous of punishments and tortures ever devised for men aboard a ship.1973, Julius Epstein, Operation Keelhaul: The Story of Forced Repatriation from 1944 to the Present, Old Greenwich, Conn.: Devin-Adair…. From the entry keelhaul
- The genius of Puritanism, with all its forefixed concatenation of misdeeds and punishments, had served me out properly.1970, John Glassco, Memoirs of Montparnasse, New York, published 2007, page 71. From the entry forefixed
Meaning of punishment
- noun The act (action) or process of punishing, imposing and/or applying a sanction, typically by an authority or a person in authority (for example: a parent or teacher), especially when disappointed or dissatisfied with the behavior or actions of a child, student, or someone else being looked after.
- noun A penalty to punish wrongdoing, especially for crime.
- noun A suffering by pain or loss imposed as retribution.
Questions about the plural of punishment
- What is the plural of punishment?
- The plural of punishment is punishments.
- Is punishment countable?
- Punishment is a countable and uncountable noun.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: punishment (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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