punish

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• intransitive verb To subject to a penalty for an offense, sin, or fault.
• intransitive verb To inflict a penalty for (an offense).
• intransitive verb To handle or use roughly; damage or hurt.
• intransitive verb To exact or mete out punishment.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To inflict a penalty on; visit judicially with pain, loss, confinement, death, or other penalty; castigate; chastise.
• To reward or visit with pain or suffering inflicted on the offender: applied to the crime or offense: as, to punish murder or theft.
• To handle severely: as, to punish an opponent in a boxing-match or a pitcher in a baseball game; to punish (that is, to-stimulate by whip or spur) a horse in running a race.
• To make a considerable inroad on; make away with a good quantity of.
• Synonyms Chasten, etc. (see chastise), scourge, whip, lash, correct, discipline.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb To impose a penalty upon; to afflict with pain, loss, or suffering for a crime or fault, either with or without a view to the offender's amendment; to cause to suffer in retribution; to chasten
• transitive verb To inflict a penalty for (an offense) upon the offender; to repay, as a fault, crime, etc., with pain or loss.
• transitive verb Low To injure, as by beating; to pommel.
• transitive verb Colloq. or Slang To deal with roughly or harshly; -- chiefly used with regard to a contest.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• verb To cause to suffer for crime or misconduct, to administer disciplinary action.
• verb To cause great harm to. (a punishing blow)
• verb To dumb down severely or to the point of uselessness or near-uselessness.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on