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am punishing

  • present progressive
    of punish (1st person singular).
    punish
    verb (used with object)
    to subject to pain, loss, confinement, death, etc., as a penalty for some offense, transgression, or fault.

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This holiday season we got in a fight because she feels that I’ve chosen Cindy over her and am punishing her children for something she and Andy did.

From Slate ● Jan. 11, 2021

My mother has decided that this means I am punishing her and refusing to have a relationship with her.

From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2017

It will be said," he remarked, "that I am punishing innocent people.

From Time Magazine Archive

"What a revengeful woman I am, punishing him after all these years," she thought.

From Balloons by Elizabeth Bibesco

I am punishing a few of these, and am investigating the previous records of others; it shall be done throughout.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 10 of 55 1597-1599 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by James Alexander Robertson