'Punishing' definitions:
Definition of 'punishing'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Resulting in punishment; "the king imposed a punishing tax"
adjective
Characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort; "worked their arduous way up the mining valley"; "a grueling campaign"; "hard labor"; "heavy work"; "heavy going"; "spent many laborious hours on the project"; "set a punishing pace" [syn: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome]
Definition of 'Punishing'
From: GCIDE
- Punish \Pun"ish\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Punished; p. pr. & vb. n. Punishing.] [OE. punischen, F. punir, from L. punire, punitum, akin to poena punishment, penalty. See Pain, and -ish.]
- 1. To impose a penalty upon; to afflict with pain, loss, or suffering for a crime or fault, either with or without a view to the offender's amendment; to cause to suffer in retribution; to chasten; as, to punish traitors with death; a father punishes his child for willful disobedience. [1913 Webster]
- A greater power Now ruled him, punished in the shape he sinned. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To inflict a penalty for (an offense) upon the offender; to repay, as a fault, crime, etc., with pain or loss; as, to punish murder or treason with death. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To injure, as by beating; to pommel. [Low] [1913 Webster]
- 4. To deal with roughly or harshly; -- chiefly used with regard to a contest; as, our troops punished the enemy. [Colloq. or Slang] [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- Syn: To chastise; castigate; scourge; whip; lash; correct; discipline. See Chasten. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'punishing'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- arduous,
- backbreaking,
- burdensome,
- castigatory,
- chastening,
- chastising,
- corrective,
- crushing,
- demanding,
- disciplinary,
- draining,
- effortful,
- exhausting,
- fatiguesome,
- fatiguing,
- forced,
- grueling,
- hard,
- hard-earned,
- hard-fought,
- heavy,
- hefty,
- Herculean,
- inflictive,
- killing,
- labored,
- laborious,
- onerous,
- operose,
- oppressive,
- painful,
- penal,
- penological,
- punitive,
- punitory,
- retributive,
- strained,
- straining,
- strenuous,
- stressful,
- taxing,
- tiresome,
- tiring,
- toilsome,
- torturous,
- tough,
- troublesome,
- trying,
- uphill,
- weariful,
- wearing,
- wearisome,
- wearying
Words containing 'Punishing'
- Punish,
- Punishable,
- Punishableness,
- Punished,
- Punisher,
- Punishment,
- punishingly,
- Canonical punishments,
- Corporal punishment,
- Draconian punishment,
- capital punishment,
- instrument of punishment,
- cruel and unusual punishment,
- self-punishment,
- freedom from cruel and unusual punishment,
- arduous backbreaking back-breaking grueling gruelling hard heavy laborious labourious punishing slavish strenuous toilsome