Punishing
Punishing adjective - Characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort.
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Slapping and punishing are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Slapping" instead an adjective "Punishing".
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In The Prince of Tennis, while Tezuka prefers to punish unruly members via assigning laps (or other forced physical effort methods, in the case of Oishi punishing Momo and Kaidoh when they were first years), Sanada from Rikkaidai resorts to slapping his teamates around.
Source: Corporal Punishment
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