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Definition: Punishing |
PunishingAdjective1. Resulting in punishment; "the king imposed a punishing tax". 2. Characterized by toilsome effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort; "worked their arduous way up the mining valley"; "a grueling campaign"; "hard labor"; "heavy work"; "heavy going"; "spent many laborious hours on the project"; "set a punishing pace". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "punishing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Punishment is the practice of imposing something unpleasant on a wrongdoer. Most often, criminals are punished by fines or prison. Children are also punished by their parents, guardians, or teachers.
In operant conditioning, punishment is the presentation of a stimulus contingent on a response which results in a decrease in response strength (as evidenced by an decrease in the frequency of response). The effectiveness of punishment in suppressing the response depends on many factors, including the intensity of the stimulus and the consistency with which the stimulus is presented when the response occurs. In parenting, additional factors that increase the effectiveness of punishment include a verbal explanation of the reason for the punishment and a good relationship between the parent and the child.
Possible reasons for punishment
See also: Criminal justice
Deterrence
Deterrence means dissuading someone from future wrongdoing, by making the punishment severe enough that the benefit gained from the offense is outweighed by the cost (and probability) of the punishment.Deterrence is a very common reason given for why someone should be punished.
Rehabilitation
Some punishment includes work to reform the wrongdoer so that they will not commit the offense again. This is different from deterrence, in that the goal here is to change the offender's attitude to what they have done, and make them come to accept that their behaviour was wrong.
Incapacitation
In the prison system, punishment has the effect of incapacitating the prisoner, and physically preventing him from committing crimes against those outside. The most dangerous criminals may be sentenced to life imprisonment for this reason.The death sentence also may be invoked for this reason.
Retribution
Retribution is the practice of "getting even" with a wrongdoer - the suffering of the wrongdoer is seen as good in itself, even if it has no other benefits.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Punishment."
Synonyms: PunishingSynonyms: arduous (adj), backbreaking (adj), grueling (adj), gruelling (adj), hard (adj), heavy (adj), laborious (adj), labourious (adj), toilsome (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Punishment | Adjective: punishing; Verb: penal; punitory, punitive; inflictive, castigatory; punished;Verb: |
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Crosswords: Punishing |
| English words defined with "punishing": arduous ♦ backbreaking, black ♦ correction ♦ dark, discipline ♦ grueling, gruelling ♦ hard, heavy ♦ laborious, labourious, lynch law ♦ penalisation, penalization, penally, penalty, punishingly, punishment, punitively, punitorily ♦ Scaphism, sinister ♦ tawse, To ride the stang, toilsome. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "punishing": Guthlac. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "punishing": Punish. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | That's not punishing me, that's punishing Elaine (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) But they're not punishing you, he said (Jacob's Ladder; writing credit: Bruce Joel Rubin) Exactly. I'm sure Oz is flogging and punishing himself right -This is sounding wrong before I even finish (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) | |
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Sydney Smith | Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them. |
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John Locke | 1690 | It is this makes them so willingly give up every one his single power of punishing, to be exercised by such alone, as shall be appointed to it amongst them; and by such rules as the community, or those authorized by them to that purpose, shall agree on. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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Health | Parents should avoid punishing the child for any disfluencies or asking the child repeat stuttered words until they are spoken fluently. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | China | Other regulations were set up punishing persons who store, process, or retrieve information deemed to be "state secrets" from international computer networks. (references) |
Russia | During the year, judges rarely found in favor for the journalists; in the majority of cases, the Government succeeded in either intimidating or punishing the journalist. (references) | |
Economic History | Iran | After 8 punishing years of war, in July 1988, Iran agreed to UN Security Council Resolution 598, which called for a cease-fire. (references) |
Human Rights | Cameroon | However, it may and does submit reports on specific alleged abuses to the government authorities directly involved, along with recommendations for improving conditions or punishing violators. (references) |
Cameroon | In his report, U.N. Special Rapporteur Rodley noted that the Government increasingly was moving toward punishing offenders, but that "some of those incriminated act out of ignorance and others out of pure habit, for they have regularly acted that way for a long time without fear of any consequences." Pretrial detainees sometimes were required, under threat of abuse, to pay so-called "cell fees," essentially a bribe to the prison guards to prevent further abuse. (references) | |
Bolivia | The Government's delay in completing effective investigations and identifying and punishing those responsible for either civilian or security force deaths results in a perception of impunity. (references) | |
Political Economy | Burkina Faso | Although the Government continued attempts to improve its human rights performance, a general climate of impunity for members of the security forces and members of the President's family, along with slow progress in identifying or punishing those responsible for abuses committed, continued to tarnish its record. (references) |
Women | Korea | The law also requires companies to establish in-house sexual harassment complaint centers and forbids firms from punishing employees for taking their complaints to outside organizations. (references) |
Worker Rights | India | When abuses, such as intimidation or suppression of legitimate trade union activities, are perpetrated against nationally organized or other large-scale unions or unionized workers, the authorities generally respond by prosecuting and punishing those persons responsible. (references) |
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Rush Limbaugh | We need to reward risk and stop punishing achievement. |
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Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | I have heretofore pointed out defects in the law for punishing official frauds, especially within the District of Columbia. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | We have proved we can bring down the deficit without choking off the recovery, without punishing seniors or the middle class, and without putting our national security at risk. |
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| "Punishing" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 78.20% of the time. "Punishing" is used about 211 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 78.2% | 165 | 24,305 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 19.43% | 41 | 53,521 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.42% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.95% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 211 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "punishing": ear-punishing, self-punishing. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
punishing | 13 |
child punishing | 9 |
kid punishing | 6 |
foot punishing | 4 |
husband punishing | 4 |
girl punishing school | 3 |
woman punishing man | 3 |
husband punishing wife | 3 |
male punishing slave | 2 |
punishing wife | 2 |
punishing submissives | 2 |
foot page punishing story | 2 |
cock punishing pussy | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "punishing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 惩罚 (Penalties, Penalty, Punish, Punished, Punitive). (various references) | |
French | punissant. (various references) | |
German | strafend (chastising, inflictive, punitive, reproachful), bestrafend (castigatory, penalizing). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ע יש" (chastise, penalty, punishment). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 勧善懲悪 (morality play, rewarding good and punishing evil). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | か"ぜ"ちょうあく (a novel or drama with a rewarding-good-and-punishing-evil theme, moral purpose, morality play, rewarding good and punishing evil). (various references) | |
Korean | 처벌. (various references) | |
Manx | kerraghey (amerce, castigate, chasten, chastening, correct, correct as child, correction, penalize, punish, punishment, victimize, visitation). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | unishingpay.(various references) | |
Russian | наказывать (amerce, castigate, chastise, correct, discipline, drop across, oppugn, penalize, punish, trounce). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zamoran (exhausting, tiresome, tiring, trying, weariful, wearing, wearisome), težak (bulky, crushing, difficile, difficult, formidable, grave, hard, heavy, hefty, kittle, labored, laborious, laboured, leaden, lumbering, ponderous, rough, swingeing, trying, uneasy, weighty). (various references) | |
Spanish | agotador (exhauster, exhausting, fatiguing, grueling, gruelling, gruesome, hard, killing, strenuous, taxing). (various references) | |
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Misspellings | |
"Punishing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: punnishing. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "punishing" (pronounced pu"nishing) |
| 5 | -n i sh i ng | admonishing, astonishing, banishing, diminishing, finishing, photofinishing, refinishing, replenishing, vanishing. |
| 4 | -i sh i ng | anguishing, accomplishing, brandishing, demolishing, distinguishing, embellishing, establishing, extinguishing, flourishing, languishing, lavishing, nourishing, polishing, publishing, reestablishing, refurbishing, relinquishing, relishing, skirmishing. |
| 3 | -sh i ng | abolishing, ambushing, bashing, blushing, brainwashing, brushing, cashing, clashing, crashing, crushing, dashing, dishing, fishing, flashing, flushing, furbishing, furnishing, gnashing, gushing, hashing, lashing, meshing, onrushing, overfishing, pushing, quashing, ravishing, refreshing, rehashing, rushing, slashing, sloshing, smashing, splashing, squashing, stashing, tarnishing, thrashing, trashing, unleashing, washing, wishing. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-h-i-i-n-n-p-s-u" | |
-2 letters: gunship, pishing, pushing, shining, sniping. | |
-3 letters: pignus, pining, punish, siping, spuing, unpins, unship. | |
-4 letters: nighs, piing, pings, pungs, suing, unhip, unpin, using. | |
-5 letters: ghis, gins, gips, gnus, guns, gush, hins, hips, hisn, hugs, hung, huns, inns, nigh, nips, nisi, nuns, phis, pigs, ping, pins, pish, pugh, pugs, pung, puns, push, shin, ship, shun, sigh. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-h-i-i-n-n-p-s-u" | |
+1 letter: shunpiking, unshipping. | |
+2 letters: shunpikings. | |
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