Punish vs Prosecute - What's the difference?
punish | prosecute |
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.
(legal) To start criminal proceedings against.
* Milton
(legal) To charge, try.
To seek to obtain by legal process.
To pursue something to the end.
* Shakespeare
As verbs the difference between punish and prosecute
is that punish is to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct, to administer disciplinary action while prosecute is (legal) to start criminal proceedings against.punish
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Verb
(es)Synonyms
* (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct ) castigateDerived terms
* punishable * punisher (noun ) * punishment (noun ) * (l) and (l) (through portmanteau with (etyl) )External links
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* 1000 English basic wordsprosecute
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Verb
(prosecut)- to prosecute a man for trespass, or for a riot
- To acquit themselves and prosecute their foes.
- to prosecute a right or a claim in a court of law
- to prosecute a scheme, hope, or claim
- I am beloved of beauteous Hermia; / Why should not I, then, prosecute my right?