Punish synonyms | phrases

Phrases with similar meaning for Punish

• rap knuckles

  penalize for wrongdoing
• slap wrist

  penalize for wrongdoing
• teach someone a lesson

  penalize
• unfairly disadvantage

  treat harshly
• ill-use

  treat harshly
• bring to book

  discipline
• give the works

  penalize for wrongdoing
• teach a lesson

  penalize for wrongdoing
• take to task
• even the score
• rap over the knuckles
• drag over the coals
• read the riot act
• tongue-lash
• find guilty
• send up the river
• be sore
• be tender
• do violence
• cut to the quick
• give no quarter
• go for jugular
• toss and turn
• drive bananas
• drive up the wall
• give a hard time
• put through wringer
• rub salt in wound
• be out for blood
• give comeuppance
• give just desserts
• make reprisal
• pay back in spades
• return the compliment
• rake over the coals
• have on the carpet
• pass judgment
• put on ice
• send to prison
• take the fall
• get revenge
• take retribution
• take satisfaction
• take vengeance
• avenge oneself
• settle a score
• square things
• make pay
• pay through the nose
• have words