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punishing

adj
/ˈpʌnɪʃɪŋ/

Definitions

  1. That punishes physically and/or mentally

    That punishes physically and/or mentally; arduous, gruelling, demanding.

    • Upon Amelia's return from the West Coast in October, George presented her with a punishing schedule of lectures and appointments to promote the new book and solidify her position as America's foremost woman aviator.
    • Regardless of the punishing heat and physicality, restaurant cooking is a calling many Chinese chefs cannot deny.
    • They took off at a punishing speed, making London in less than half a day.

  2. Debilitating, harsh.

    • Public debt of this magnitude can provoke punishing tax rates and crowd out private investment.
    • The apparent punishing effect of naloxone may be mediated through the withdrawal reaction that it produces[.]

  3. Punishment.

    • We may not be convinced that God is as involved in historical punishings as the prophet claims, and we may have a strong negative reaction to the claims made for how God acts[…]
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. present participle and gerund of punish

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at punishing. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at punishing. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at punishing

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA