punishing
Meaning of punishing
verb
- To cause to suffer for crime or misconduct, to administer disciplinary action.
If a prince violates the law, then he must be punished like an ordinary person.
- To treat harshly and unfairly.
- To handle or beat severely; to maul.
- To consume a large quantity of.
noun
Punishment.
adjective- That punishes physically and/or mentally; arduous, gruelling, demanding.
- Debilitating, harsh.
a punishing blow
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Hyphenation of punishing
pun-ish-ing
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- punishing is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
punishing synonyms
Meaning arduous:
arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, toilsome
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