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Exhausting vs Punishing - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between exhausting and punishing

is that exhausting is very tiring while punishing is that inflicts punishment.

As verbs the difference between exhausting and punishing

is that exhausting is present participle of lang= en while punishing is present participle of lang=en.

As a noun punishing is

punishment.

exhausting

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Very tiring.
  • * This task is exhausting !

    • Verb

    (head)

    • punishing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That inflicts punishment
  • arduous, gruelling

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • punishment
  • * 2011 , Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Practical Theology (page 303)
    • We may not be convinced that God is as involved in historical punishings as the prophet claims, and we may have a strong negative reaction to the claims made for how God acts