Looking for the meaning or definition of the word punishing? That's all it means.
resulting in punishment
"the king imposed a punishing tax"
arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome(adj)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"
to inflict a penalty on for a fault or crime the child was punished for breaking dishes on purposeif caught, the thief will be severely punished
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