punish

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To cause (a child, student, or someone else being looked after, or a suspect or criminal) to suffer for crime or misconduct, to administer disciplinary action, typically by an authority or a person in authority (for example: a parent, teacher, or police officer). transitive
    — If a prince violates the law, then he must be punished like an ordinary person.
  2. To treat harshly and unfairly. figuratively,transitive
    — But each effort that Anna makes —and she has attempted many— meets with obstacles from a welfare bureaucracy that punishes single mothers for initiative and partial economic self-sufficiency.
  3. To handle or beat severely; to maul. colloquial,transitive
  4. To consume a large quantity of. colloquial,transitive
    — A few moments later, we were all sitting around the veranda of the hunters' dining hall, punishing the gin, as usual.

词形变化

punishes present,singular,third-person punishing participle,present punished participle,past punished past punishe alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

近义词
amerce castigate chasten chastise come down on correct fix someone's wagon have someone's guts for garters have someone's head have someone's hide give it to someone give someone what for give what for gruel malavogue nail someone to the wall penalize penance punish tan someone's hide tar out teach someone a lesson
反义词
forgive let off reward
下位词
make an example of mispunish outpunish prepunish repunish telish victimize bastinado behead crucify execute fine flog gate ground hang hit imprison keelhaul pillorize
衍生词
corporally punish mispunish outpunish overpunish prepunish punishability punishable punishee punisher punishing punishment repunish telish telishment
相关词
pain take the law into one's own hands

词源

From Middle English punischen, from Anglo-Norman, Old French puniss-, stem of some of the conjugated forms of punir, from Latin puniō (“to inflict punishment upon”), from poena (“punishment, penalty”); see pain. Displaced Old English wītnian and (mostly, in this sense) wrecan.
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