Meaning of PENALIZE
| Pronunciation: | | 'peen`lIz
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| | Definition: | | [v] 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" |
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| | Synonyms: | | penalise, punish |
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| | See Also: | | amerce, approximate, avenge, castigate, correct, discipline, estimate, execute, gauge, guess, judge, pillory, put to death, retaliate, revenge, scourge, sort out, tar-and-feather, victimise, victimize | |
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| | Definition: | | \Pe"nal*ize\, v. t.
1. To make penal.
2. (Sport.) To put a penalty on. See {Penalty}, 3. [Eng.]
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| | Related Terms: | | acquit, amerce, anathematize, attaint, blacklist, bring home to, bring to account, bring to book, call to account, castigate, censure, chasten, chastise, condemn, convict, correct, damn, deal with, denounce, denunciate, discipline, doom, excommunicate, find guilty, fine, handicap, inflict upon, judge, masthead, mulct, pass sentence, pass sentence on, pillory, pronounce judgment, pronounce sentence, proscribe, punish, sentence, settle with, square accounts, take to task, visit upon |
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