Synonyms for punishes
pun·ish·es

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1. List of paraphrases for "punishes":

   penalizes, penalises, criminalizes, represses, suppresses

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1. Serigne Mbaye:

   His image at night when we were on the boat always haunts me, the sole fact that he is dead and I’m alive is because of an unjust law that condemns and punishes us. Some of us make it. Some can spend 20 years in a vicious circle without papers.

2. Hamid Karzai:

   No one punishes the victim.

3. Cabot Phillips:

   The university punishes students based on how controversial or offensive their words are. Well, by nature, the most controversial ideas will be the ones that are least present, and in college campuses it’s overwhelmingly conservative ideas that are not present, so it’s going to be conservative students that are facing the brunt of this, any student, it doesn’t matter political affiliation, no student should have to fear bringing up ideas that may make people a little uncomfortable.

4. Pope Francis:

   I once heard at a wedding a father say, 'I sometimes have to hit my children a little but never in the face, so as to not demean them.' How nice, I thought, he has a sense of dignity, when he punishes, he does it right and moves on.

5. Ryan Pack:

   God: God created this violent world, he allows the evil and violence to exist in this world, he forgives evil people when they should be punished and he punishes good people when they should be forgiven. God is clearly not good.