Word "PUNISH" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Verb
Definition:
impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on
Synonyms:
penalise, penalize
Examples:
we had to punish the dog for soiling the floor again

Crossword Clues for PUNISH

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Inflict a penalty for Newsday 24 Aug 2025
Letters from Josiahs in uppercase held back, correct? (6)
Chastise The Sun Two Speed 09 Jul 2025
Play on words is hard to beat The Sun Two Speed 09 Jul 2025
Apply a sanction to drive around Northern Ireland (6)
Send to prison, say Premier Sunday 27 Apr 2025
Shove, having caught, back in to discipline (6)
Perhaps endlessly pushing to exact retribution (6)
Hurt or unship as a dislocation (6)
Chester's Cleo McQueen wanted to _ Abe Fielding (6)
Push in, perhaps, and hurt (6)
Push to keep in silly sentence (6)
Make (an offender) suffer for an offence (6)
Sanction something that looks like a double-entendre?
Wrongly push in? It's correct
Make one suffer for offence (6)
"Wordplay" is hard to beat (6) The Times Quick Cryptic 23 Dec 2024
Beat or force out of Northern Ireland (6)
Discipline, chastise (6) Puzzler 04 Dec 2024
Impose a penalty or sanctions on (6)
How to make him pay for his pun (6)
Around Northern Ireland, promote discipline
Beat the play on words, sort of(6)
Penalise The Telegraph Quick 20 Nov 2024
Shin up
Shove around in the wrong way and inflict suffering (6)
Penalise (6) The Guardian Quick 04 Oct 2024
Correct wordplay is what's essential to authors (6)
Make one suffer for his pun perhaps (6)
Take disciplinary action (6)
Impose a penalty on (6)
Ground, perhaps Wall Street Journal 31 Aug 2024
Impose penalty on
For having dressed up in, mum will discipline (6)
Make suffer for an offence
Discipline shown by drive around Northern Ireland (6)
Possibly fine drive around Northern Ireland (6)
To beat is funny, so to say! (6)
Penalise page, a French one, quiet (6)
Penalise for a shipwreck around mid-June (6)
Subject to a penalty (6)
Use roughly like a play on words (6)
Chastise The Sun Two Speed 25 Apr 2024
Play on words is hard to beat The Sun Two Speed 25 Apr 2024
Make one pay to unship it in such a way (6)
Inflict penalty
Turn in, push out and knock about
Push in so as to give pain
Inflict a penalty on Commuter 23 Mar 2024
Penalise play on words - his undoing! (6)
Penalise play words - his undoing! (6)
Inflict a penalty
Turn new ship around to cause one to suffer for an offence (6)
Bash shin up, or knee-cap? (6)
Penalise The Telegraph Quick 15 Jan 2024
Play on words is horrific initially, chastise (6)
Discipline? That's a joke, with his laxity (6)
Discipline in push for reform (6)
Admonishment
Kinda like a bit of wordplay? Wall Street Journal 01 Nov 2023
Discipline press covering Northern Ireland The Guardian Quiptic 14 Aug 2023
Penalize, say
Subject to a fine, say Newsday 22 Jan 2023
Give the silent treatment, say Universal 20 Oct 2022
Chastise The Telegraph Quick 14 Jul 2022
Penalise The Times Concise 14 Jun 2022
Sentence like wordplay? The Guardian Cryptic 11 May 2022
Discipline press covering Northern Ireland The Times Cryptic 03 May 2022
Drive round Northern Ireland is fine, perhaps The Times Cryptic 19 Apr 2022
Impose a penalty Irish Times Simplex 28 Mar 2022
It's fine, for example, to sell drugs around Ulster Irish Times Crosaire 28 Feb 2022
What could be fine joke is hard to follow
It's fine, for example, to sell drugs around Ulster Irish Times Crosaire 17 Nov 2021
Correct urge to capture province
Like a play on words lacking core discipline The Telegraph Cryptic 22 Oct 2021
It's fine, for example, to sell drugs around Ulster Irish Times Crosaire 16 Jul 2021
Come down on press, receiving popular backing The Telegraph Cryptic 09 Jul 2021
Verb related to ''penalty'' Newsday 26 Jun 2021
Say "No TV for a week" to, perhaps Universal 08 Jan 2021
Impose a penalty Irish Times Simplex 26 Dec 2020
Penalize someone for a wrong action
Shout "Go to your room!" Family Time 21 Sep 2020
Penalise Irish Times Simplex 30 Jul 2020
Give a time-out, say Universal 25 Mar 2020
It's fine, for example, to sell drugs around Ulster Irish Times Crosaire 12 Dec 2019
Discipline Press covering Ulster Irish Times Crosaire 22 Nov 2019
Encourage guards in upping discipline
Discipline that's like a joke, by the sound of it The Telegraph Cryptic 17 Aug 2019
Wordplay is hard to take advantage of
Fine maybe after twisting in breaking elbow
Popular backing in Press to teach someone a lesson Irish Times Crosaire 08 May 2019
Treat severely The Times Concise 23 Apr 2019
Ground, say Wall Street Journal 11 Mar 2019
Castigate attempt at humour, to a degree
Ground, say
After play on words, is husband fine, say?
Maybe fine joke is hilarious at first The Telegraph Toughie 18 Dec 2018
Maybe fine joke is rubbish ultimately The Telegraph Cryptic 02 Nov 2018
Play on words is hard to beat The Sun Two Speed 20 Sep 2018
Chastise The Sun Two Speed 20 Sep 2018
Crime on the rise, flipping hard to get discipline
Hit with a fine, say Thomas Joseph 19 Mar 2018
Discipline Universal 30 Dec 2017
Discipline The Times Concise 05 Nov 2017
Say "You're grounded" to, say LA Times Daily 30 Oct 2017
Say 'You're grounded' to, say The Washington Post 30 Oct 2017
Discipline The Telegraph Quick 24 Aug 2017
How can this ground be fine? Irish Times Crosaire 12 Jul 2017
Castigate tangibly Newsday 16 Jun 2017
What comedian uses is last approach to teach someone a lesson Irish Times Crosaire 26 May 2017
Fine perhaps like some wordplay on the radio
Play on words is hard to beat
Joke is hard to sanction
Penalize press protecting Northern Ireland
Say "You're grounded" to, say
Discipline
Fine, e.g Wall Street Journal 08 Oct 2016
Fine, for example, having press against covering part of UK The Telegraph Cryptic 22 May 2016
Play on words is hard to beat
Hit with a fine, say Wall Street Journal 02 Nov 2015
Discipline? Something like a joke, it seems
Lock up, say LA Times Daily 05 Jun 2015
Ground, say LA Times Daily 24 May 2015
Jokey word for 'discipline'? The Telegraph Toughie 10 Mar 2015
Hit with a fine, say
Lock up, say
Ground, say
Push in if it's out? Correct
Teach a lesson to
Hurt, like a groan-inducing joke?
Discipline
Discipline
Put in a corner, perhaps
Fine, perhaps
Fine, say
Fine, for instance
Fine, for instance
Castigate
Censure severely
Ground, perhaps
Drive round Northern Ireland is fine, perhaps
Fine, maybe
Put in a corner
Teach a lesson, maybe
Tan, in a way
Chastise
Discipline
Castigate
Chasten
Keep after school
Send to one's room without supper, say
Chastise.
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