Thesaurus:punish
English
Verb
(transitive)
Sense: to cause someone to suffer for crime or misconduct
Synonyms
- amerce
- castigate (formal)
- chasten (archaic)
- chastise
- come down on
- correct
- fix someone's wagon (idiomatic)
- have someone's guts for garters (Commonwealth, idiomatic)
- have someone's head (idiomatic, figurative)
- have someone's hide (idiomatic, figurative)
- give it to someone
- give someone what for (idiomatic, slang)
- give what for (idiomatic)
- gruel
- malavogue (Ireland, dated)
- nail someone to the wall
- penalize
- penance
- punish
- tan someone's hide (idiomatic, figurative)
- tar out (dated, slang)
- teach someone a lesson (idiomatic)
Antonyms
Hyponyms
Various
Further reading
- “972. punishment” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “punish” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.