chastise

CHASTISE, verb transitive 1. To correct by punishing; to punish; to inflict pain by stripes, or in other manner, for the purpose of punishing an offender and recalling him to his duty.I will chastise you seven times for your sins. Leviticus 26:28.2. To reduce to order or obedience; to restrain; to awe; to repress.The gay social sense, By decency chastisd.3. To correct; to purify by expunging faults; as, to chastise a poem