"punish" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

punish verbo

punish + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 42
punish people • punish children • punish companies • punish offenders • punish criminals • ...
(6) sin, behavior, conduct
Kolokacji: 3
(7) disobedience, dissent
Kolokacji: 2
1. punish disobedience = ukarz nieposłuszeństwo punish disobedience
  • How do you punish clear disobedience without breaking the compassionate spirit that led to it?
  • Salifou testified that to satisfy leaders who punished disobedience with death, he had looted during raids, grabbed new child conscripts and hit and kicked civilians without pity if they resisted.
  • The United States, as now composed, have no powers to exact obedience, or punish disobedience to their resolutions . . . .
  • Torturers kept making up new arbitrary rules, for which they would punish disobedience.
  • Not when Zan was there to punish disobedience.
  • In "Apes, in Particular," he writes that the indignation of animal rights advocates about cages "becomes dubious compared to the plight of children shut up in apartments with psychopathic parents, incestuous or sadistic fathers, alcoholic mothers, or bigoted families who punish disobedience with blows and treat leukemia with prayer."
  • The only difference here is that we've given these two the power to punish disobedience.
  • "Just keep the Foreign Legion in mind and remember how a capitaine punishes disobedience."
  • Strict in her management of the proceedings, Sheindlin coerces precise compliance of rules and has been known to punish disobedience and misbehavior.
  • "How do they punish disobedience?"
2. punish dissent = ukarz różnicę zdań punish dissent
verbo + punish
Kolokacji: 4
want to punish • go to punish • stop punishing • try to punish
punish + preposición
Kolokacji: 14
punished for • punished with • punished in • punish by • punish to • ...
punish + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 31
severely punished • harshly punished • unfairly punished • properly punished • physically punished • ...

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