penalize

UK/ˈpiː.nəl.aɪz/US/ˈpiː.nəl.aɪz/

verbB2+Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #12,517 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: penalized, penalizing, penalizes

To penalize is to punish somebody for breaking a rule. Penalize the offender, penalized for lateness, heavily penalized.

Britain spells it penalise. It is used most about systems rather than people, since a rule that penalizes the poor is a criticism of the rule rather than an act by anybody.

Definitions of penalize

1verbpenalizeTo punish somebody for breaking a rule.B2+
“Students will be penalized for handing in their essays late.”

penalize is a punishing.

Also accepted in games: penalise

Where it comes from

From penal + -ize.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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penalize in the wild

An error-tolerant design (or human-error-tolerant design) is one that does not unduly penalize user or human errors.
Error-tolerant design
The Court declared that only state governments have the power to penalize those crimes.
United States v. Harris
Most relevantly, equity does not "penalize", so agencies cannot disgorge more than the net profits that resulted from their wrongdoing.
Disgorgement
The second term, places a prior over the weights, to favor sparsity and penalize larger weights.
Structural risk minimization
When multiple pages contain essentially the same content, search engines such as Google and Bing can penalize or cease displaying the copying site in any relevant search results.
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