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What does penalize mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word penalize? Here's what it means.

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  1. (transitive) To subject to a penalty, especially for the infringement of a rule or regulation.
  2. (transitive, sports) To impose a handicap on.
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What this did was massively penalize the Netherlands, bumping it out of the seeded teams and making it one of the sides nobody wanted to face.
My advice for next year is to avoid leagues that penalize players for having too large a role in the offense.
In fact, a ban would penalize publishers, many of whom depend on personalizing their content and services.
Fair enough, as I hardly penalize students for reading and referencing material not contained in the casebook.
But they got it wrong when they voted to allow officials to penalize teams 15 yards for any on-field celebration deemed excessive.
Physicians and hospitals fear the practice could unfairly penalize practitioners and say there's no way to benchmark quality accurately.

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