Punishable

Definition

punish /'pʌnÇʃ/ v (က) ~ sb (for sth/ doing sth) (by/ with sth) အျပစ္ေပးသည္။ ျပစ္ဒဏ္ခတ္သည္။ ျပစ္ဒဏ္ က်ခံေစသည္။ Those responsible for this crime will be severely punished. ❍ How should society punish a man for the murder of his wife/ for murdering his wife? ❍ She was punished with ten years in prison. ❍ They used to punish the children by sending them to bed early. (ခ) ~ sth (by/ with sth) အျပစ္ေပးသည္။ ဒဏ္ခတ္သည္။ ဒဏ္တပ္သည္။ Aggressive behaviour should always be punished. ❍ punish dangerous driving with heavy fines. ❏ punishable adj ~ (by sth) ဒဏ္သင့္ႏိုင္ေသာ။ အျပစ္ဒဏ္ ထိုက္ေသာ။ This crime is punishable by death in some countries. ❍ giving false information to the police is a punishable offence. ❏ punishing adj ပန္းလ်ထိခိုက္ေစေသာ။ a punishing routine/ schedule ❍ a punishing defeat. ❏ punishment n ၁။ (က) [U] ျပစ္ဒဏ္ေပးျခင္း၊ ျပစ္ဒဏ္ က်ျခင္း။ ျပစ္ဒဏ္။ to escape punishment ❍ capital punishment (ie punishment by death). See also CORPORAL PUNISHMENT (ခ) [C] ဒဏ္ခတ္မႈ။ ျပစ္ဒဏ္။ The punishments inflicted on the children were too severe. ❍ The punishment should fit the crime. ၂။ [U] အၾကမ္းပတမ္းဒဏ္။ He works as a miner, and his body has taken a lot of punishment over the years.

Examples

1. Anyone caught smoking on school premises will be punished.
2. [punish someone for (doing) something] : He was punished for stealing.
3. [punish someone by something] : People operating illegal businesses can be punished by imprisonment or a fine.
4. We approached this task in the wrong way
5. and we were punished for it.
6. The government is determined to punish drug trafficking.