penalize for



penalize someone for something

to punish someone for something. It's not fair to penalize her for being late. You needn't penalize yourself for the failure. It wasn't all your fault.

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Atalia-Hebrew
MorpheusMAWR-fee-əs (English)Greek Mythology
Natia-Georgian
Dado (2)-Croatian
ToriaTAWR-yəEnglish
StephaniSTEF-ə-neeEnglish (Modern)