verb see: pain
Date: 14th century
transitive verb
1. to impose a penalty on for a fault, offense, or violation, to inflict a penalty for the commission of (an offense) in retribution or retaliation,
2. to deal with roughly or harshly, to inflict injury on ; hurt , intransitive verb to inflict punishment, punishability noun punishable adjective punisher noun Synonyms: see: punish