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the king imposed a punishing tax.
Examples of punishing
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He also persevered despite repeated punishing hits from Chicago's stout defense.
From the online.wsj.com
Ran for an hour or so at mid-day, finishing with a punishing mile along a beach.
From the guardian.co.uk
The Houston battalion's punishing work hours were also beyond what was expected.
From the time.com
The abduction of a young soldier prompts a punishing Israeli raid against Hamas.
From the time.com
He took a handoff off the edge and bowled over Antone Exum with a punishing run.
From the washingtonpost.com
Both bills are aimed at getting children in booster seats, not punishing adults.
From the kentucky.com
He hopes the added weight helps him against a punishing fighter such as Santana.
From the pe.com
I am now an ardent fan of punishing success and rewarding fatalistic mediocrity.
From the forbes.com
If no fault divorce exists, then quit punishing one spouse financially for life.
From the heraldtribune.com
- Resulting in punishment; "the king imposed a punishing tax"
- Arduous: characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort; "worked their arduous way up the mining valley"; "a grueling campaign"; "hard labor"; "heavy work"; "heavy going"; "spent many laborious hours on the project"; "set a punishing pace"
- (punish) impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on; "The students were penalized for showing up late for class"; "we had to punish the dog for soiling the floor again"
- (punished) subjected to a penalty (as pain or shame or restraint or loss) for an offense or fault or in order to coerce some behavior (as a confession or obedience)
- Punishment is the authoritative imposition of something negative or unpleasant on a person or animal in response to behavior deemed wrong by an individual or group. Inflicted unpleasantness without authority is not punishment, but is characterized as something else. ...
- (Punishment (psychology)) In operant conditioning, punishment is any change in a human or animal's surroundings that occurs after a given behavior or response which reduces the likelihood of that behavior occurring again in the future. ...
- (Punishment (school)) School punishment is a hierarchy of penalties used to punish infractions of rules in a school setting. There are wide variations in practice between schools in different cultures, countries or states, and between different types of school in the same country. ...
- (Punishment (TV series)) Punishment is an Australian television soap opera made by the Reg Grundy Organisation for the Ten Network in 1981.
- (The Punishment) "The Punishment" is the second single release from Tarot's fifth studio album For the Glory of Nothing.
