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[ verb ] impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on
Examples "The students were penalized for showing up late for class" "we had to punish the dog for soiling the floor again" Used in print (Gerald Green, The Heartless Light....)He imagined they were the kind whose tax_returns were never examined ( if they were , they were never penalized ) , whose children had no unhappy romances , whose names never knew scandal . |
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