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Bring_up vs Punish - What's the difference?

bring_up | punish | Related terms |

As verbs the difference between bring_up and punish

is that bring_up is {{&lit|To bring from a lower position to a higher position.|lang=en} while punish is to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct, to administer disciplinary action.

bring_up

English

Verb

  • * 1953 , United States Supreme Court, John Den ''ex dem.'' Archibald Russell ''v.'' The Association of the Jersey Company , reprinted in the (United States Reports), volume 56, page 426:
  • This case was brought up by writ of error from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of New Jersey.
  • To mention.
  • To raise (children).
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=6 citation , passage=‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”. […]’.}}
  • To uncover, to bring from obscurity.
  • To turn on power or start, as of a machine.
  • To vomit.
  • To stop or interrupt a flow or steady motion.
  • * 1934 , (Rex Stout), , 1992 (w) edition, ISBN 0553278193, page 91:
  • "Mr. Wolfe, I beg you—I beg of you—"
    I was sure she was going to cry and I didn't want her to. But Wolfe brusquely brought her up :
    "That's all, Miss Barstow."
  • * 1999 , Alice Borchardt, Night of the Wolf , (w), ISBN 0345423631, page 260 [http://google.com/books?id=tG4tiCvmHJwC&pg=PA260&dq=brought-him-up]:
  • "No," Maeniel shouted, "No!" trying to distract the man, and lunged toward him. The chain on his ankle brought him up short and he fell on his face.

    punish

    English

    Verb

    (es)
  • To cause to suffer for crime or misconduct, to administer disciplinary action.
  • To cause great harm to. (a punishing blow )
  • To dumb down severely or to the point of uselessness or near-uselessness.
  • Synonyms

    * (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct ) castigate

    Derived terms

    * punishable * punisher (noun ) * punishment (noun ) * (l) and (l) (through portmanteau with (etyl) )