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Princeton's WordNet

1. (adj) punishing
resulting in punishment
"the king imposed a punishing tax"

2. (adj) arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome
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"

Definition of 'punishing'

Webster Dictionary

1. punishing
of Punish

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