0 past simple and past participle of punish
1 to cause someone who has done something wrong or committed a crime to suffer, by hurting them, forcing them to pay money, sending them to prison, etc.:
2 to use or treat something badly, violently, or without care:
He really punishes that horse of his.
Even minor infringements of the law will be severely punished.
Instead of simply punishing them, the system encourages offenders to modify their behaviour.
He said that when he was a boy, his father used to take a stick to him to punish him.
This paper extends these models by considering a fishery crime that generates a flow of returns until the offender is caught and then punished.
Many novelists and artists who depicted the pleasure quarters and/or related topics were punished.
Although the process still continues, the certainty that racial crimes will be punished has greatly reduced their occurrence.
