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pun•ish

Pronunciation: (pun'ish), [key]
—v.t.
1. to subject to pain, loss, confinement, death, etc., as a penalty for some offense, transgression, or fault: to punish a criminal.
2. to inflict a penalty for (an offense, fault, etc.): to punish theft.
3. to handle severely or roughly, as in a fight.
4. to put to painful exertion, as a horse in racing.
5. Informal.to make a heavy inroad on; deplete: to punish a quart of whiskey.

—v.i.
to inflict punishment.

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