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PENALIZE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they penalize ... he / she / it penalizes
Past simple: penalized
Past participle: penalized
-ing form: penalizing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on
Example:
we had to punish the dog for soiling the floor again
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
"Penalize" entails doing...:
approximate; estimate; gauge; guess; judge (judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time))
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "penalize"):
avenge; retaliate; revenge (take revenge for a perceived wrong)
tar-and-feather (smear the body of (someone) with tar and feathers; done in some societies as punishment)
execute; put to death (kill as a means of socially sanctioned punishment)
pillory (punish by putting in a pillory)
castigate (inflict severe punishment on)
amerce (punish with an arbitrary penalty)
victimise; victimize (punish unjustly)
scourge (punish severely; excoriate)
correct; discipline; sort out (punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Derivation:
penalization (the act of punishing)
