We thought it wrong that you should punish him.
Source: tatoeba (17745)
Punish
//ˈpʌnɪʃ//
Synonyms for "punish" (130 found)
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Closest matches (26)
Strong matches (39)
Related words (65)
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4 entriesMore specific
20 entriesShowing 16 of 20 words.
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2 entriesRelated terms
2 entriesderived
14 entriesentails
1 entriesetymologically related_to
1 entrieshas first_subevent
5 entrieshas last_subevent
3 entrieshas prerequisite
31 entriesShowing 16 of 31 words.
has subevent
14 entriesmotivated by_goal
23 entriesShowing 16 of 23 words.
related to
10 entriesTranslations
165 translations across 92 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- ndëshkoj verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Ancient Greek
2 entries- κολάζω verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
- τιμωρέω verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Arabic
4 entries- اِقْتَصَّ verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
- جَزَى verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
- عَاقَبَ verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
- قَاصَصَ verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Armenian
1 entries- պատժել verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Asturian
1 entries- castigar verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- cəzalandırmaq verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
- cəzasını vermək verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Basque
1 entries- zigortu verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Belarusian
2 entries- кара́ць verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
- пакара́ць verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Bengali
2 entries- দণ্ড দেত্তয়া verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
- সাজা দেত্তয়া verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Bulgarian
2 entries- нака́жа verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
- нака́звам verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Burmese
2 entries- ဆုံးမ verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
- အပြစ်ပေး verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Catalan
2 entries- castigar verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
- punir verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Cherokee
1 entries- ᎣᏍᏛᏗᏍᏗ verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 制裁 verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
- 懲罰 /惩罚 verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
- 處罰 /处罚 verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Cornish
1 entries- kessydhya verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Czech
2 entries- potrestat verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
- trestat verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Danish
1 entries- straffe verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Dutch
3 entries- afstraffen verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
- bestraffen verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
- straffen verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Egyptian
2 entries- n-i-k:G37 verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
- x-s-U35-A24 verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Esperanto
1 entries- puni verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Estonian
1 entries- karistama verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Finnish
3 entries- kurittaa verb (to treat harshly and unfairly)
- rangaista verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
- rangaista verb (to treat harshly and unfairly)
French
2 entries- châtier verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
- punir verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Friulian
1 entries- cjastiâ verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Galician
2 entries- castigar verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
- punir verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Georgian
1 entries- დასჯა verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
German
2 entries- bestrafen verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
- strafen verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Gothic
1 entries- 𐍅𐌻𐌹𐌶𐌾𐌰𐌽 verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Greek
1 entries- τιμωρώ verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Hebrew
1 entries- הֶעֱנִישׁ verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Higaonon
1 entries- silot verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Hindi
1 entries- सज़ा देना verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Hungarian
2 entries- büntet verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
- megbüntet verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Icelandic
1 entries- refsa verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Indonesian
1 entries- menghukum verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Ingrian
2 entries- rangaissa verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
- rangata verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Irish
3 entries- aifir verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
- cuir pionós ar verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
- pionósaigh verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Italian
2 entries- castigare verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
- punire verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Japanese
2 entries- 懲罰する verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
- 罰する verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Kazakh
1 entries- жазалау verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Khmer
3 entries- ទរ verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
- បញ្ចាល verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
- ផ្ដន្ទា verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Korean
4 entries- 벌주다 verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
- 응징하다 verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
- 징벌하다 verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
- 처벌하다 verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- жазалоо verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Lao
1 entries- ລົງໂທດ verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Latin
2 entries- multō verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
- pūniō verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Latvian
2 entries- nosodīt verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
- sodīt verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Lithuanian
2 entries- bausti verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
- nubausti verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Low German
2 entries- bestrafen verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
- strafen verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Luxembourgish
2 entries- bestrofen verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
- strofen verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Macedonian
2 entries- казни verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
- казнува verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Malay
1 entries- menghukum verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Mizo
1 entries- hrem verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Mongolian
1 entries- шийтгэх verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Māori
2 entries- ngahi verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
- ngawhi verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Ngazidja Comorian
2 entries- uhukumu verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
- uâdhiɓu verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- straffe verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- straffa verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Occitan
2 entries- castigar verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
- punir verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Old Czech
2 entries- potresktati verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
- tresktati verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Old English
2 entries- wrecan verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
- wītnian verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Oromo
1 entries- adabuu verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Persian
3 entries- ادب کردن verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
- تنبیه کردن verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
- مجازات کردن verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Piedmontese
1 entries- punì verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Polish
2 entries- karać verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
- ukarać verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Portuguese
2 entries- castigar verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
- punir verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Quechua
2 entries- maqakuy verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
- wanay verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Romanian
1 entries- a pedepsi verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Romansch
1 entries- chastiar verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Russian
4 entries- кара́ть verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
- нака́зывать verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
- наказа́ть verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
- покара́ть verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Sanskrit
1 entries- चयते verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Sardinian
4 entries- casticare verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
- castigae verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
- castigai verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
- castigare verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- kažnjávati verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
- kȁzniti verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
- ка̏знити verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
- кажња́вати verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Sicilian
3 entries- castiari verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
- castigari verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
- castijari verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Slovak
2 entries- potrestať verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
- trestať verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Slovene
1 entries- kaznovati verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Spanish
4 entries- castigar verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
- castigar verb (to treat harshly and unfairly)
- empurar verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
- escarmentar verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Swahili
1 entries- kuadhibu verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Swedish
1 entries- straffa verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Tajik
2 entries- сазо додан verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
- ҷазо додан verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Tamil
1 entries- தண்டி verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Tatar
1 entries- җәзаларга verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Thai
2 entries- ทำโทษ verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
- ลงโทษ verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Tibetan
1 entries- ཉེས་པ་གཏོང verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Turkish
2 entries- ceza vermek verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
- cezalandırmak verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Turkmen
1 entries- jezalandyrmak verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Ukrainian
4 entries- кара́ти verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
- нака́зувати verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
- наказа́ти verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
- покара́ти verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Urdu
1 entries- سزا دینا verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Uyghur
1 entries- جازالىماق verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Uzbek
2 entries- jazo bermoq verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
- jazolamoq verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Venetan
1 entries- castigar verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Vietnamese
2 entries- phạt verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
- trừng phạt verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Yiddish
1 entries- באַשטראָפֿן verb (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct)
Sample sentences
19 total sentences available.
Punish the wicked and save the weak.
Source: tatoeba (28599)
Don't punish the boy severely; go easy on him.
Source: tatoeba (46273)
Do not punish the girl severely; go easy on her.
Source: tatoeba (46421)
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