Crossword-Solution: PUNISH 6 letters, 58 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Punish	v. t.	To impose a penalty upon; to afflict with pain, loss, or suffering for a crime or fault, either with or without a view to the offender's amendment; to cause to suffer in retribution; to chasten; as, to punish traitors with death; a father punishes his child for willful disobedience.
Punish	v. t.	To inflict a penalty for (an offense) upon the offender; to repay, as a fault, crime, etc., with pain or loss; as, to punish murder or treason with death.
Punish	v. t.	To injure, as by beating; to pommel.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
PUNISH	anagram	PUSHIN, UNSHIP

We have 58 clues for the answer “PUNISH”

Clue	Answers
inflict penalty	1 answer
Castigate tangibly	1 answer
Deal with harshly	1 answer
Fine, perhaps	1 answer
Give a time-out, say	1 answer
Give the silent treatment, say	1 answer
Ground, perhaps	1 answer
Ground, say	1 answer
Hit with a fine, say	1 answer
Hurt, like a groan-inducing joke?	1 answer
Inflict a penalty for wrongdoing	1 answer
Keep after school	1 answer
Kinda like a bit of wordplay?	1 answer
Lock up, say	1 answer
Put in a corner, perhaps	1 answer
Say "No TV for a week" to, perhaps	1 answer
Say "You're grounded" to, say	1 answer
Send to one's room without supper, say	1 answer
Subject to a fine, say	1 answer
Teach a lesson to	1 answer
Teach a lesson, maybe	1 answer
The students were penalized for showing up late for class	1 answer
Verb related to "penalty"	1 answer
cause (someone) to suffer or undergo a penalty for some wrongdoing	1 answer
Put in a corner	2 answers
Fine, maybe	2 answers
Fine, for instance	2 answers
Fine, e.g.	2 answers
Subject to a Penalty	2 answers
DEPRIVE of privileges	2 answers
Tan, in a way	2 answers
Fine, say	3 answers
JUMP up on	3 answers
throw the book at	4 answers
GIVE person beans	4 answers
Censure severely	5 answers
let person have it	5 answers
Penalize	6 answers
Jump on	7 answers
penalise	7 answers
gruel	8 answers
amerce	8 answers
let have it	12 answers
institutionalise	13 answers
Spank	17 answers
MAKE illegal	17 answers
chastise	23 answers
Victimise	26 answers
avenge	30 answers
Intern	32 answers

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Hint 1 meaning

An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.

Hint 2 anagram

EAMCZE

Hint 3 another clue

eruption

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Unscramble PUNISH 6-letter words that start with P 6-letter words that end in H 6-letter words containing UN 6-letter words containing SH 6-letter words with P and U

Sentences with PUNISH (5)

Each house may determine the Rules of its Proceedings, punish its Members for disorderly Behavior, and, with the Concurrence of two-thirds, expel a Member.

The United States' Constitution Founding Fathers 1975

She resembled, in her fierce pursuit of them, an infant pestilence—the scarlet fever, or some such half-fledged angel of judgment—whose mission was to punish the sins of the rising generation.

The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992

They told me that you would be happy to accompany us to the village of the Gomangani and punish these bad people while I, Korak, The Killer, carry away my Meriem.” The king ape puffed out his chest and strutted about very stiff-legged indeed.

The Son of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993

Even now they are doubtless marching on this camp, for they were sent by Menelek to punish Achmet Zek and his followers for a raid upon an Abyssinian village.

Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar Edgar Rice Burroughs 1995

But if I were stronger, I should have no way to punish him, no means of proving any guilt in him without proving my own guilt also.

The Prisoner of Zenda Anthony Hope 1993

Quotes with PUNISH (3)

Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punish'd and cured is that the lunacy is soordinary that the whippers are in love too.

William Shakespeare As You Like It

LAW 38Think As You Like But Behave Like Others If you make a show of going against the times, flaunting your unconventional ideas and unorthodox ways, people will think that you only want attention and that you look down upon them. They will find a way to punish you for making them feel inferior. It is far safer to blend in and nurture the common touch. Share your originality only with tolerant friends and those who are sure to appreciate your uniqueness.

Robert Greene The 48 Laws of Power

When you use your energy and resources to punish people, you run out of energy and resources to protect people.

Kelly Bryson Don't Be Nice, Be Real: Balancing Passion for Self with Compassion for Others

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 31 times in crossword archives (1977–2024).