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   Pun·ish·ing

   /ˈpənəSHiNG/

   

   adjective

   • 1. physically and mentally demanding; arduous: "a punishing eight-city book tour"
   • ▪ severe and debilitating: "the recession was having a punishing effect on our business"

   Derivatives

   • 1. punishingly adverb

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   What is a punishing schedule?

   • A punishing schedule, activity, or experience requires a lot of physical effort and makes you very tired or weak . It was a punishing schedule for any man, but Fox was now fifty-seven. Besides diets, he devised punishing exercise routines. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary.

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   What does it mean to punish a person?

   • We fail along the way, and God’s patience endures ( Romans 2:4 ). The word “punish” has different meanings. The dictionary defines it as… Punish: “to subject to pain, loss, confinement, death, etc., as a penalty for some offense, transgression, or fault: to punish a criminal. 2. to inflict a penalty for (an offense, fault, etc.): to punish theft.

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   What does punishment mean?

   • 1. to subject to pain, loss, confinement, or death as a penalty for some offense or fault. 2. to inflict such a penalty for (an offense or fault): to punish theft. 3. to handle or treat harshly or roughly; hurt. 4. Informal. to consume; deplete: to punish a bottle of wine. 5. to inflict punishment.

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   Something punishing is extremely physically difficult to do. On a very hot, humid day, even a 5K is a punishing race to run. Anything that exhausts you because it's so demanding can be described with the adjective punishing. A punishing hike leaves you gasping and applying bandages to your blisters.

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   to cause someone who has done something wrong or committed a crime to suffer, by hurting them, forcing them to pay money, sending them to prison, etc.: Those responsible for these crimes must be brought to court and punished. He punished the class by giv ing them extra work.

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   / ˈpʌnɪʃɪŋ / us. Your browser doesn't support HTML5 audio. very difficult and making you tired: a punishing schedule. Want to learn more? Improve your vocabulary with English Vocabulary in Use from Cambridge. Learn the words you need to communicate with confidence.

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   Definition of 'punishing' Word Frequency. punishing. (pʌnɪʃɪŋ ) adjective. A punishing schedule, activity, or experience requires a lot of physical effort and makes you very tired or weak. He claimed his punishing work schedule had made him resort to taking the drug. Synonyms: hard, taxing, demanding, grinding More Synonyms of punishing.