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punishing

Letters that make punishing

s, g, n, p, h, i, u are letters that make 'punishing'

Words within punishing

shin, hi, pun, UN, hin, ng, punish, in, HI, IN, In, Ni, Pu are words within 'punishing'

punishing is a 9 letter word ending with g
punishing is a 9 letter word starting with p

2 possible definitions for 'punishing'

Punishing as "resulting in punishment"

Under this definition, punishing is an adjective and has the following properties:

Participles to punishing

punish, penalize, penalise are participles to 'punishing'.

Example of punishing used within this context

"the king imposed a punishing tax"

Punishing as "characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion, especially physical effort"

Under this definition, punishing is an adjective and has the following properties:

Synonyms

hard, backbreaking, gruelling, arduous, heavy, grueling, laborious, operose, toilsome have the same meaning as 'punishing'

Derivatives of punishing

hardness, arduousness, strenuousness, laboriousness, operoseness, toilsomeness, ruggedness, burdensomeness, heaviness, onerousness, oppressiveness, labor, labour, toil are derivatives of 'punishing'.

Similar to punishing

effortful is similar to punishing.

Example of punishing used within this context

"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"