punishing English

Meaning punishing meaning

What does punishing mean?

punishing

— adjective resulting in punishment the king imposed a punishing tax

— adjective (= arduous, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort worked their arduous way up the mining valley a grueling campaign hard labor heavy work heavy going spent many laborious hours on the project set a punishing pace

Synonyms punishing synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as punishing?

punishing English » English

toilsome

laborious

gruelling

backbreaking

arduous

operose

heavy

hard

grueling

wearisome

vindicatory

tireful

subduing

soul-destroying

severe

retributory

retributive

restraining

punitive

painstaking

laboursome

labourious

fining

exhausting

demanding

checking

chastising

Topics punishing topics

What do people use punishing to talk about?

Social behavior Government

Government functions

• What are the functions of government?
  regulation of trade regulation of finance coinage printing money public works keeping the peace waging war putting down rebellion passing laws enforcing the law punishing crime