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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of punish.
  • adjective That has been the object of punishment

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective subjected to a penalty (as pain or shame or restraint or loss) for an offense or fault or in order to coerce some behavior (as a confession or obedience)

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