Verb:

ताड़ना करना, कष्ट पहुंचाना, दंड देना, सज़ा देना,

punishes's Usage Examples:

Workers quickly sour on a boss who plays favorites or punishes scapegoats.

It is obviously on the. face of it an atrocious practice because it indiscriminately punishes men who are completely guiltless of any war crime.

When God punishes he does so as a craftsman who uses a blast furnace to refine the metal he is working with.

No, says Marcion, but on the contrary - punishes them in his hell !

For excommunication differs from anathema: anathema which ought to be very rarely, or never, resorted to, in precluding all pardon, execrates a person, and devotes him to eternal perdition: whereas excommunication rather censures and punishes his conduct.

'It is not I but the hand of Providence that punishes thee,' I shall say, thought he, imagining what he would say when killing Napoleon.

His brother is Anteros, the god of mutual love, who punishes those who do not return the love of others, without which Eros could not thrive; he is sometimes described as the opponent of Eros.

A foreign subject implicated in a criminal suit cannot be pursued or molested in any way unless there exist full proofs of his having taken part in the crime imputed to him, and should he be duly convicted of the crime, he is handed over to his legation, which either sends him back to his own country to undergo the punishment established by law, or, according to more recent usage, punishes him in Persia by fine, imprisonment, 'c. In this respect the powers of the foreign representatives in Persia, now numbering ten (Great Britain, Russia, France, Turkey, Austria-Hungary, Germany, United States of America, Italy, Belgium and the Netherlands) vary considerably, some having the power of condemning a criminal to death, while others cannot do more than fine and imprison for short periods.

The Larceny Act of 1861 punishes the breaking into, or out of, a place of divine worship in the same way as burglary, and the theft of things sacred in the same way as larceny.

It has cognizance of scandalous offences by laymen and punishes them by deprivation of religious privileges.

Synonyms:

put to death, revenge, tar-and-feather, pillory, victimize, castigate, scourge, penalize, discipline, estimate, avenge, victimise, correct, judge, execute, retaliate, sort out, penalise, gauge, approximate, amerce, guess,

Antonyms:

exempt, obfuscate, thinness, distant, exact,