| Meaning | impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody | |
| Synonyms | punish, penalize | |
| Entails | estimate, gauge, approximate, guess, judge | judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time) |
| Entailed by | suspend, debar | bar temporarily |
| Narrower | amerce | punish with an arbitrary penalty |
| castigate | inflict severe punishment on | |
| discipline, correct, sort out | punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience | |
| execute, put to death | kill as a means of socially sanctioned punishment | |
| pillory | punish by putting in a pillory | |
| revenge, avenge, retaliate | Take revenge for a perceived wrong | |
| scourge | punish severely | |
| tar-and-feather | smear the body of (someone) with tar and feathers | |
| victimize, victimise | punish unjustly | |
| Spanish | castigar, penalizar, punir | |
| Catalan | castigar, penalitzar, punir | |
| Nouns | penalty, penalisation | the act of punishing |
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