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punish

B1 verb

punish /ˈpʌnɪʃ/ nghĩa là phạt, trừng phạt

Các nghĩa

  1. phạt · trừng phạt

    To cause (a child, student, or someone else being looked after, or a suspect or criminal) to suffer for crime or misconduct, to administer disciplinary action, typically by an authority or a person in authority (for example: a parent, teacher, or police officer).

    transitive

    If a prince violates the law, then he must be punished like an ordinary person.

    The law needs to punish this behaviour as a deterrent to others.

    His mother had punished him when he'd deserved it. She'd loved him, he was “all she had,” but she'd punished him, too.

  2. hành hạ, đối xử tàn tệ

    To treat harshly and unfairly.

    figuratively · transitive

    The rider who comes back on his horse in mid-air over a fence is punishing his horse severely.

  3. đánh đập, hành hung

    To handle or beat severely; to maul.

    colloquial · transitive

  4. ngốn, nốc

    To consume a large quantity of.

    colloquial · transitive

    A few moments later, we were all sitting around the veranda of the hunters' dining hall, punishing the gin, as usual.

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