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Adjective punishing has 2 senses
- punishing - resulting in punishment; "the king imposed a punishing tax"
- arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, punishing, toilsome - 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"
Antonym: effortless (indirect, via effortful)
Verb punish has 1 sense
- punish, penalize, penalise - impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on; "The students were penalized for showing up late for class"; "we had to punish the dog for soiling the floor again"
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
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