transitive. To rebuke, reprove, chastise; to punish; to torment, afflict.

To train, discipline; = tee, v.1 3; to chastise.

To chastise. rare. (Probably for beswinge.)

transitive. To cause (an offender) to suffer for an offence, esp. a transgression of a legal or moral code; to subject to a penalty or sanction as…

To inflict punishment or suffering upon, with a view to amendment; also simply, to punish, to inflict punishment (esp. corporal punishment) on.

transitive. Chiefly Law. To inflict a penalty upon; to punish. Obsolete.

transitive. To improve by discipline or punishment; to convict and punish; to punish in accordance with law or justice; esp. (Scottish) to put to…

Ironically, to reward (for evil). Obsolete.

transitive. To reprove, rebuke; to punish. Obsolete.

To punish, chastise (generally). Obsolete.

To lay (a thing) athwart or across; to place crosswise; to set or put (things) across each other.

transitive. To chastise.

transitive. To make exactions or inflict punishment on; to punish. Frequently with with. Obsolete.

transitive. To punish (an offence, an offender). Obsolete.

to rap (a person) on the knuckles (also fingers) and variants: to punish with a rap on the fingers, knuckles, etc. Frequently figurative: to…

transitive. To punish (a person) for an illegal or illicit act by requiring him or her to pay a sum of money. Frequently with the penalty or…

transitive. To punish (a person, †an offence) by a fine; to exact money from (a person); to tax. Also (occasionally): †to subject to a penalty of…

To visit (a person) with a fit penalty; to punish. Obsolete exc. Australian. Also dialect with out.

transitive. To punish; to visit with punishment. Obsolete.

To inflict chastisement upon; to punish; also, to get the better of, defeat.

transitive. To punish (wrongdoing).

(transitive) to chastise with the taws.

To deal effectively with (a person) by way of punishment, repression, etc.

colloquial. to let (a person) have it: to beat, strike, attack (a person); (also) to shoot; (in weaker sense) to give a scolding to, to…

To inflict (punishment) on one. rare.

to give (a person) Jesse: to treat or handle severely; to beat or scold soundly. Similarly to catchor get Jesse.

to give, get goss: to give, receive punishment.

colloquial. To receive, or have received, a beating, punishment, or reprimand; to be injured or killed; to ‘get it’, ‘catch it’; spec. (of a…

Chiefly North American (colloquial). As the type of a place to which naughty children are taken to be punished; esp. in to take (a person) to the woo…

In colloquial phrases. to give (one) snuff, to deal sharply or severely with; to punish.

colloquial or slang. U.S. slang. To punish, beat, pummel, strike hard, etc.; to criticize harshly, to ‘knock’; to soak it to (one) = to sock it to at…

To punish (a person) for (doing something), frequently with reference back to what the other person has just said. slang.

to weigh off: to punish; to convict or sentence. slang (originally Military). Now chiefly Criminals'.

to tear down: to punish; to criticize severely. U.S. colloquial.

To fail (someone) in a test, course, etc.; to punish (see also quot. 1969).

transitive. To punish (someone) with a penalty, sentence, etc. North American.