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Punishing vs Punish - What's the difference?

punishing | punish |

As verbs the difference between punishing and punish

is that punishing is while punish is to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct, to administer disciplinary action.

As an adjective punishing

is that inflicts punishment.

As a noun punishing

is punishment.

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

    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) )

    Related terms

    * pain

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