penalizing, tormenting, crushing, demoralizing, pummeling, crucifying, ripping, inflicting, hurting, lashing, imposing, crippling, disciplining, compensating, victimizing, forcing, grueling, retaliating, coddling, pressuring, annihilating, pounding, battering, brutalizing, stopping, attacking, letting, terrorizing, goading, defending, bulldozing, depriving, whacking, berating, humiliating, sidelining, persecuting, criticizing, stifling, chastising, shaming, indicting, wrecking, wimping, sapping, toughening, bloodying, devastating, capitulating, evading, tiring, hammering, squeezing, infuriating, savaging, fining, forgiving, vilifying, subjecting, castigating, scolding, tolerating, deterring, appeasing, reining, oppressing, expelling, tackling, aggressing, imprisoning, slapping, shielding, cowing, muscling, destroying, blaming, intimidating, discouraging, throttling, censuring, hounding, dodging, mistreating, blunting, limiting, slamming, decimating, undermining, walloping, chasing, ruining, torturing, burdening, outfoxing, trampling, slashing, dictating, profiting, slandering, condemning, spiting, exacted, taxing, controlling, boring, dividing, doubting, exertion, heartache, hurt, pinching, studying, concealment, distinguishing, hiding, manifest, translating, absorbing, accumulating, ado, counterproductive, defeating, selfdestructive, asocial, irrational, adjustive, habitual, maladaptive, perverse, disintegrative, negativistic, unsocial, antisocial, appetitive, bizarre, confrontational, demeaning, destructive, detrimental, dysfunctional

ball-breaker, ball-buster, correction, discipline, lynch law, penalisation, penalization, penally, penalty, punishingly, punishment, punitively, punitorily, sinister, tawse

arduous, backbreaking, effortful, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, labourious, toilsome