(a) To inflict legal or royal punishment on (sb., a town); assess the legal punishment of (sb.); punish (sb.) for breaking the rules of a guild; also, punish (infractions of the law); ben punished, suffer or undergo legal punishment; (b) to inflict punishment or retribution.

(a) To inflict suffering on (sb.), torment; ben punished in (with), be afflicted with (sorrow, punishment, etc.); (b) to kill (sb.), punish by death; (c) to avenge (the death of sb.); (d) to denigrate (the name of sb.), revile.

(a) To inflict divine retribution on (sb.); ben punished, suffer divine retribution; (b) to punish (sb.) on account of sins, moral faults, religious failings, etc.; ben punished, suffer punishment for religious or moral reasons; (c) to exact divine retribution for (wrongs, sin, moral faults, deeds); inflict punishment on (sins); ben punished, of sins, etc.: receive divine punishment; (d) ben punished, to cause (sb.) to suffer divine retribution; (e) to inflict (damnation upon sb., oneself); (f) to show (sb.) worthy of punishment, prove guilty; (g) to inflict divine retribution; ~ upon, exact divine retribution for (a sin); (h) ppl. punishing, inflicting divine retribution.

To torment (the body, soul, etc.) with sufferings, inflict penance on.