“punish” in Latin

punire (general term): poena afficere (to inflict punishment): poenam alicui irrogare (to settle or fix a punishment): poenas ab aliquo or in aliquo (☞ not in aliquem) petere, expetere, or de aliquo capere (to bring to punishment): poenas ab aliquo repetere (to seek satisfaction from): in aliquem animadvertere or vindicare (to resent or punish a crime; animadvertere, also, by blows, verberibus): exemplum in aliquem edere or facere (to make an example of; Vid: Ruhnken, Ter., Eun., 5, 4, 24): multare (to punish with sensible or painful loss, especially with the loss of money or life, when pecunia and morte are added): castigare (to chastise, with a view to improvement; verbis or verberibus): mulcare (with corporal severity): plectere (usually in the passive, plecti; and especially of punishment by a magistrate). To punish anything, aliquid vindicare (to resent), castigare (to punish); aliquid ulcisci, persequi. (The words are found in this connection and order.) ulcisci et persequi, aliquid exsequi (to resent or avenge by punishment; ☞ exsequi not before the time of Augustus): to punish a person severely, gravissimum supplicium de aliquo sumere; very severely, quam acerbissimum supplicium sumere de aliquo; most cruelly, in aliquem omnia exempla cruciatusque edere: to punish a thing most severely, acerrime vindicare aliquid: to punish one with exile or imprisonment, exsilio or vinculis multare: to punish one with death, morte punire or multare; morte or summo supplicio mactare: to be punished, puniri; plecti poenas dare, solvere, pendere, expendere; by anyone, alicui; on account of anything, alicujus rei: to be punished with death, poenas capite luere.