punish
verb (used with object)
to subject to pain, loss, confinement, death, etc., as a penalty for some offense, transgression, or fault.
well-punished
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a word derived from
punish.
Example Sentences
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The ideas of excellence and failure are so intimately linked in French that what passes for a compliment is to say that someone has un français châtié—a well-punished French.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 1, 2016
Her hands still hovered above the already well-punished keys of the typewriter.
From The Sturdy Oak A composite Novel of American Politics by fourteen American authors by Elizabeth Garver Jordan
