punish

To subject to a penalty for an offense, sin, or fault.

To inflict a penalty for (an offense).

To handle or use roughly; damage or hurt.

To exact or mete out punishment.

To inflict a penalty on; visit judicially with pain, loss, confinement, death, or other penalty; castigate; chastise.

To reward or visit with pain or suffering inflicted on the offender: applied to the crime or offense: as, to punish murder or theft.

To handle severely: as, to punish an opponent in a boxing-match or a pitcher in a baseball game; to punish (that is, to-stimulate by whip or spur) a horse in running a race.

To make a considerable inroad on; make away with a good quantity of.

Synonyms Chasten, etc. (see chastise), scourge, whip, lash, correct, discipline.

To impose a penalty upon; to afflict with pain, loss, or suffering for a crime or fault, either with or without a view to the offender’s amendment; to cause to suffer in retribution; to chasten