punishing

pun·ish  (pnsh)

v. pun·ished, pun·ish·ing, pun·ish·es

v.tr.

1. To subject to a penalty for an offense, sin, or fault.

2. To inflict a penalty for (an offense).

3. To handle roughly; hurt: My boots were punished by our long trek through the desert.

v.intr.

To exact or mete out punishment.

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[Middle English punissen, punishen, from Old French punir, puniss-, from Latin poenre, pnre, from poena, punishment, from Greek poin; see k^wei-¹ in Indo-European roots.]

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punish·a·bili·ty n.

punish·a·ble adj.

punish·er n.

Synonyms: punish, correct, chastise, discipline, castigate, penalize
These verbs mean to subject a person to something negative for an offense, sin, or fault. Punish is the least specific: The principal punished the students who were caught cheating.
To correct is to punish so that the offender will mend his or her ways: Regulations formerly permitted prison wardens to correct unruly inmates.
Chastise implies either corporal punishment or a verbal rebuke, as a means of effecting improvement in behavior: I chastised the bully by giving him a thrashing. The sarcastic child was roundly chastised for insolence.
Discipline stresses punishment inflicted by an authority in order to control or to eliminate unacceptable conduct: The worker was disciplined for insubordination.
Castigate means to censure or criticize severely, often in public: The judge castigated the attorney for badgering the witness.
Penalize usually implies the forfeiture of money or of a privilege or gain because rules or regulations have been broken: Those who file their income-tax returns late will be penalized.

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	punishing - resulting in punishment; "the king imposed a punishing tax"
	2.	punishing - characterized by 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" arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, laborious, operose, toilsome, hard, heavy effortful - requiring great physical effort

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punishing

adjective hard, taxing, demanding, grinding, wearing, tiring, exhausting, uphill, gruelling, strenuous, arduous, burdensome, backbreaking his punishing work schedule
light, easy, simple, effortless, undemanding, cushy (informal), untaxing, unexacting

Translations

punishing [ˈpʌnɪʃɪŋ]

A. ADJ [race, schedule] → duro, agotador

B. N → castigo m (fig) → castigo m, malos tratos mpl
to take a punishing → recibir una paliza; [car, furniture etc] → recibir muchos golpes

punishing [ˈpʌnɪʃɪŋ]

adj (= exhausting) [schedule, work] → épuisant(e); [speed, pace] → infernal(e)

n → punition f

punishing

adj blow → hart; routine, pace → strapaziös, tödlich; workload → strapaziös, erdrückend; to get or take some punishing treatment (cars, furniture) → strapaziert werden; (Sport) → vorgeführt werden (inf), → eins aufs Dach bekommen (inf)

n to take a punishing (inf: team, boxer etc) → vorgeführt werden (inf); he got a real punishing from his opponent (inf) → er wurde von seinem Gegner regelrecht vorgeführt (inf); his self-confidence took a punishing → sein Selbstbewusstsein litt darunter or bekam einen Knacks (inf)

punishing [ˈpʌnɪʃɪŋ]

1. adj (fig) (exhausting) → sfiancante

2. n → punizione f