The act or process of punishing, imposing and/or applying a sanction. / A penalty to punish wrongdoing, especially for crime. / A suffering by pain or loss imposed as retribution

plural of punishment

(transitive) To cause to suffer for crime or misconduct, to administer disciplinary action. / (transitive, figuratively) To treat harshly and unfairly.

simple past tense and past participle of punish

That has been the object of punishment.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of punish

That punishes physically and/or mentally; arduous, gruelling, demanding. / (figuratively) Debilitating, harsh.

Punishment.

present participle of punish

Subject to punishment; appropriate for punishment.