punishe

Verb

punish (third-person singular simple present punishes, present participle punishing, simple past and past participle punished)

1. (transitive) To cause (a child, student, or someone else being looked after, or a suspect or criminal) to suffer for crime or misconduct, to administer disciplinary action, typically by an authority or a person in authority (for example: a parent, teacher, or police officer).
   • If a prince violates the law, then he must be punished like an ordinary person.

   Synonyms:

   castigate, penalize, pillory

2. (figuratively, transitive) To treat harshly and unfairly.
   • But each effort that Anna makes —and she has attempted many— meets with obstacles from a welfare bureaucracy that punishes single mothers for initiative and partial economic self-sufficiency.1994, Valerie Polakow, Lives on the Edge: Single Mothers and Their Children in the Other America, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 68

   Synonyms:

   mistreat

3. (colloquial, transitive) To handle or beat severely; to maul.
4. (colloquial, transitive) To consume a large quantity of.
   • A few moments later, we were all sitting around the veranda of the hunters' dining hall, punishing the gin, as usual.1970, Doc Greene, The Memory Collector, page 49