punishing

Meaning of punishing

verb
  1. 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.
  2. To treat harshly and unfairly.
  3. To handle or beat severely; to maul.
  4. To consume a large quantity of.

noun

Punishment.

adjective
  1. That punishes physically and/or mentally; arduous, gruelling, demanding.
  2. 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

Meaning :

castigate, mistreat

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