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PUNISH
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Traducere în limba română
punish verb tranzitiv
1. a pedepsi, a penaliza;
punished with death pedepsit cu moartea.
2. (fam.) a bea zdravăn.
3. (fam.) a lovi straşnic cu pumnii.
4. a mâna (un cal) cu violenţă.
5. a consuma foarte mult;
(glumeţ) to punish one's food a mânca foarte mult.
6. (sl.) to be / to get punished a suferi o pagubă.
7. to punish the engine a forţa motorul.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
“I never heard anything so abominable. How shall we punish him for such a speech?”
(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)
And the old king was very angry, and wanted to punish his wicked sons; but they made their escape, and got into a ship and sailed away over the wide sea, and where they went to nobody knew and nobody cared.
(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)
Pray forgive me if I have been very presuming, or at least do not punish me so far as to exclude me from P. I shall never be quite happy till I have been all round the park.
(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)