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• v  impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on
• a  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)

• Most dramatically, in some countries, including Iran and Saudi Arabia, homosexuality can be punished by death.
• You have to remember that all those who worked for her service and those who used it none of them were held to account, or punished.
• Students with autism are particularly likely to be punished for behaviors common to their condition, stemming from difficulties with appropriate social behavior.

• punish
• penalize
• penalise

• unpunished

News & Articles

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• Orange County-Denver Ecstasy Pill Dealer Wins Prison Trip
  A federal judge has punished an Orange County man who illegally supplied Ecstasy tablets and cocaine for party-goers in Southern California and Colorado. Special Agents with the Drug Enforcemen...
  June 17, 2013 - OC Weekly
• Orlando Woman Uses Stun Gun To Punish Child Over Oatmeal [Video]
  An Orlando woman used a stun gun to punish a child over oatmeal. An Orlando woman allegedly punished her daughter with a stun gun when the child failed to make oatmeal properly. Melissa Neale faces charges of child abuse after taking discipline a bit too far over the preparation of a breakfast food. Melissa Neale... Read more » Orlando Woman Uses Stun Gun To Punish Child Over Oatmeal [Video] is ...
  June 17, 2013 - The Inquisitr
• Dodgers, D'backs punished
  Dodgers, D'backs punished Associated Press Copyright 2013 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Published 11:27 pm, Friday, June 14, 2013 Major League Baseball came down hard on the Los Angeles Dodgers and Arizona Diamondbacks on Friday, handing out eight suspensions and a dozen fines as punishment for a bench-clearing ...
  June 15, 2013 - Albany Times Union

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in FOXNews
  This provocation underscores the need for action -- not just this afternoon at the UN Security Council, but in our determination to prevent the spread of these weapons. Rules must be binding. Violations must be punished,Obama said in a speech...
• Dmitry Medvedev in Washington Post
  The security of our peacekeepers and civilians has been restored,Medvedev said in a nationally televised statement. "The aggressor has been punished and suffered very significant losses. Its military has been disorganized."
• Graeme McDowell in The Associated Press
  No matter how good you play,he said, "good golf got rewarded, and bad golf got punished really badly."