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Wordnet 3.0

VERB (1)

1. impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on;
- Example: "The students were penalized for showing up late for class"
- Example: "we had to punish the dog for soiling the floor again"
[syn: punish, penalize, penalise]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Penalize \Pe"nal*ize\, v. t.
   1. To make penal.
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   2. (Sport.) To put a penalty on. See Penalty, 3. [Eng.]
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

penalize
    v 1: impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on; "The students
         were penalized for showing up late for class"; "we had to
         punish the dog for soiling the floor again" [syn: punish,
         penalize, penalise]