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Meaning of punishing


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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  punishing
      adj 1: resulting in punishment; "the king imposed a punishing
             tax"
      2: 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" [syn: {arduous},
         {backbreaking}, {grueling}, {gruelling}, {hard}, {heavy},
         {laborious}, {operose}, {punishing}, {toilsome}]


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