Word Meanings - PENALIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To put a penalty on. See Penalty, 3. (more info) 1. To make penal.

Related words: (words related to PENALIZE)

• PENAL
  Of or pertaining to punishment, to penalties, or to crimes and offenses; pertaining to criminal jurisprudence: as: Enacting or threatening punishment; as, a penal statue; the penal code. Incurring punishment; subject to a penalty; as, a penalact
• PENALITY
  The quality or state of being penal; lability to punishment. Sir T. Browne.
• PENALLY
  In a penal manner.
• PENALIZE
  To put a penalty on. See Penalty, 3. (more info) 1. To make penal.
• PENALTY
  1. Penal retribution; punishment for crime or offense; the suffering in person or property which is annexed by law or judicial decision to the commission of a crime, offense, or trespass. Death is the penalty imposed. Milton. 2. The suffering,