verb
Meaning 1
To cause injury, distress, or inconvenience to someone, especially as punishment or as a comeuppance.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: idiomatic
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: give someone what for, take someone down a peg, teach someone a lesson, amerce, castigate, chasten, chastise, come down on, correct, fix someone's wagon, have someone's guts for garters, have someone's head, have someone's hide, give it to someone, give what for, gruel, malavogue, nail someone to the wall, penalize, penance, punish, tan someone's hide, tar out
Antonyms: none provided