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say it: PUHN-i-shing
punishing is an adjective meaning "resulting in punishment". It is pronounced /ˈpʌnɪʃɪŋ/ — PUHN-i-shing. It carries 2 recorded senses.
resulting in punishment
“the king imposed a punishing tax”
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”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for punishing come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.