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verb • impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on | ||||||||
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noun • a word or expression used for some particular thing • a limited period of time • (usually plural) a statement of what is required as part of an agreement • any distinct quantity contained in a polynomial • one of the substantive phrases in a logical proposition • the end of gestation or point at which birth is imminent • (architecture) a statue or a human bust or an animal carved out of the top of a square pillar; originally used as a boundary marker in ancient Rome verb • name formally or designate with a term | ||||||||
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noun • the federal government of the United States • assets available for use in the production of further assets • a book written by Karl Marx (1867) describing his economic theories • wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value • a seat of government • one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis • a center that is associated more than any other with some activity or product • the upper part of a column that supports the entablature adjective satellite • first-rate • of principal importance • uppercase | ||||||||
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PUNISH which was last seen in the The Guardian Cryptic crossword.
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PUNISH
Updated: October 14, 2023
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