PUNISHED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does punished mean? 

• PUNISHED (adjective)
  The adjective PUNISHED has 1 sense:

1. subjected to a penalty (as pain or shame or restraint or loss) for an offense or fault or in order to coerce some behavior (as a confession or obedience)

  Familiarity information: PUNISHED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PUNISHED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Subjected to a penalty (as pain or shame or restraint or loss) for an offense or fault or in order to coerce some behavior (as a confession or obedience)

Similar:

tarred-and-feathered (smeared with tar and covered with feathers as a punishment)

Antonym:

unpunished (not punished)

 Context examples 

Yet it was by these that I was punished.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

You can hang me, or do what you like with me, but you cannot punish me as I have been punished already.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There might be only ten or fifteen men altogether, he said, but the will of the majority became the law for the whole ten or fifteen, and whoever violated that will was punished.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Her mother financed the settlement, you see, so the girl wasn't afraid of being punished for letting me go.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The first night in camp, Joe, the sour one, was punished roundly—a thing that Spitz had never succeeded in doing.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Children should not be punished for wetting the bed.

(Bedwetting, NIH)

MY uncle was humanely anxious to get Harrison to bed as soon as possible, for the smith, although he laughed at his own injuries, had none the less been severely punished.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) Does the patient say that he/she is a bad person or deserves to be punished?

(NPI - Say That He/She is a Bad Person, NCI Thesaurus)

I cannot endure it—let me be punished some other way!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

If he's done anything amiss, he shall confess, beg pardon, and be punished.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)