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PUNISHED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Subjected to a penalty (as pain or shame or restraint or loss) for an offense or fault or in order to coerce some behavior (as a confession or obedience)
Classified under:
Similar:
tarred-and-feathered (smeared with tar and covered with feathers as a punishment)
Antonym:
unpunished (not punished)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb punish
Context examples:
There were times when several dogs, pitching on to him, punished him before he could get away; and there were times when a single dog scored deeply on him.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
You shall be avenged in turn; for not one of them but shall minister to your needs. But as yet you are to be punished for what you have done.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Then he went to the king, and told him all his brothers’ roguery; and they were seized and punished, and he had the princess given to him again; and after the king’s death he was heir to his kingdom.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
She was properly punished.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
In deference to my promise, and much against my will, I consented to leave him there for three days, under the charge of Mrs. Hayes, since it was evident that it was impossible to inform the police where he was without telling them also who was the murderer, and I could not see how that murderer could be punished without ruin to my unfortunate James.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But, sooner than have him punished for his offences (as he would be if he prowled about in this country), I give him more money than I can afford, at intervals when he reappears, to go away.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
He then grew serious, and desired to ask me freely, whether I were not troubled in my mind by the consciousness of some enormous crime, for which I was punished, at the command of some prince, by exposing me in that chest; as great criminals, in other countries, have been forced to sea in a leaky vessel, without provisions: for although he should be sorry to have taken so ill a man into his ship, yet he would engage his word to set me safe ashore, in the first port where we arrived.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
He came between him and the shirks he should have punished.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Laurie has confessed, asked pardon, and been punished quite enough.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Then the old King said: Be easy, he shall be punished, and he at once flew with the Queen to the bear’s cave, and called in: Old Growler, why have you insulted my children?
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
