Synonyms for punishing
pun·ish·ing

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1. punishingadjective

   resulting in punishment

   "the king imposed a punishing tax"

   Synonyms:
   toilsome, heavy, laborious, arduous, hard, operose, grueling, backbreaking, gruelling

   Antonyms:
   effortless

2. arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsomeadjective

   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"

   Synonyms:
   backbreaking, sullen, ponderous, laborious, overweight, toilsome, intemperate, sound, wakeless, dense, grueling, with child(p), threatening, grave, straining, severe, cloggy, lumbering, large(p), great(p), clayey, enceinte, voiceless, grievous, tough, fleshy, weighed down, hard, weighty, unvoiced, gruelling, expectant, concentrated, lowering, surd, heavy(a), sonorous, impenetrable, arduous, operose, strenuous, heavy, heavy(p), big(a), labored, profound, difficult, laboured, strong, gravid, big(p), leaden, knockout

   Antonyms:
   effortless

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1. List of paraphrases for "punishing":

   punish, penalising, punishment, penalizing, suppression, sanctioning, punished

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1. Jamal Khashoggi:

   There are other ways of punishing, to use a word that's pretty harsh but it's true.

2. Amit Ray:

   Generating more respect, values, and brotherhood among countries is the role of the United Nations. Policing, blaming, or punishing countries is not the job of the UN.

3. David Velazco:

   It’s backwards — when it’s about punishing campesinos they move fast.

4. Patrick Leahy:

   If their (ABC's) information is accurate, the burden is on the Iraqi Government to punish those involved and on the Departments of State and Defense to insist that they do so and to offer support in investigating and punishing those involved as the law calls for, otherwise the Iraqi units involved should be deemed ineligible for U.S. aid.

5. Angelica Gonzalez-Garcia:

   She's a little girl. She hasn't done anything, why are they punishing her ? Why does she keep having to plead to be back with her mother ? Why can't they return her to me ?