punitive
to punish anyone who commits a particular crime: 惩处（犯罪行为）
Drunken driving can be punished with a prison sentence.酒后驾车可被处以监禁。
Even minor infringements of the law will be severely punished.即使是轻微的违法行为也将受到严厉的惩罚。
Instead of simply punishing them, the system encourages offenders to modify their behaviour.这个制度并不是单单惩罚犯罪者，而是鼓励他们改正自己的行为。
He said that when he was a boy, his father used to take a stick to him to punish him.他说他小的时候，他爸爸经常用棍子惩罚他。
They were punished by being made to stand out in the cold.
She was punished for smoking on school premises.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Punishing & punishments
ankle bracelet
ankle tag
ball and chain
bar
be brought/called to accountidiom
discipline
endorse
endorsement
fixed penalty
flay
flay someone aliveidiom
get what's coming to youidiom
gross misconduct
penalty
sentence
skin someone aliveidiom
slam dunk
someone should be shotidiom
sort
sort something out

punishverb[T] (TREAT BADLY)

to use or treat something badly, violently, or without care: 粗暴对待，伤害
He really punishes that horse of his.他确实粗暴对待自己的马。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Using and misusing
adopt
adoption
avail
avail yourself of something
be/go heavy on somethingidiom
exhaust
give/allow something full playidiom
go into something
go through
gobble something up
make capital out of somethingidiom
recycle
spare
swallow
tap
turn over
turn to someone/something
turn/use something to good accountidiom
unblock
underuse

Examples of punished

punished

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

This paper extends these models by considering a fishery crime that generates a flow of returns until the offender is caught and then punished.
Many novelists and artists who depicted the pleasure quarters and/or related topics were punished.
Although the process still continues, the certainty that racial crimes will be punished has greatly reduced their occurrence.
Even when a specific individual imposed prohibitive agreements on the community, it was the people who punished violators, not the one who conferred the agreement.
Even if contracts were punished, as long as they remained valid, the choice to create legal duties for oneself would remain open.
In twelve of the nineteen cases, citizens were punished because they made repeated petitions.
Builders are frequently punished for this lack of mobility by bankruptcy.
Within weeks of taking control, this local resistance police officially punished eight women with radical croppings for so-called intimate relations with the enemy.
Certainly, some participants have been punished because their behaviour seriously violated the law and caused damage.
A defense lawyer can sincerely affirm the ideal that the guilty should be punished and the innocent set free.
Compliance with the formal rules is unlikely and irrational when judges are punished for attempting to limit the prerogatives of the president.
Formal political opposition was banned and those who did not conform to the law were punished.
It may not itself ever be reinforced and may be punished by injury or death.
Young people should, the law says, be punished more severely for transgressions, perhaps as a means of educating them and preparing them for life.
If it was harvest time, they stole the corn; and if alms were refused, they punished the owners by plundering their granaries at night.
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