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Punishing

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Definition

causing someone to suffer, usually as a punishment for doing something wrong

Synonyms & similar words

penalise operose backbreaking gruelling heavy laborious grueling penalize arduous hard toilsome punish disciplining penalizing chastising correcting castigating reproving rebuking reprimanding condemning sentencing penalizing flogging whipping beating caning thrashing scourging lashing torturing abusing

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