Qualities
Synonyms for punishing
The synonym for punishing recorded in this bank is hard, in the sense "characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for punishing
- hardadjective, in the sense "characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for punishing.
characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion
Set a punishing pace.
The true synonym
hard
Same sentence, swapped: Set a hard pace.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where punishing stands in the sentence above.
- crushing
- disciplinary
- strained
Where punishing turns up in the game
punishing is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where punishing is the trap
- crushingadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is devastating, in the sense "physically or spiritually devastating", and punishing is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play punishing
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so punishing reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from qualities at Treeline outward to the whole bank.
One vocabulary, two jobs
punishing is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 1. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.