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What does punishingly mean?

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Adverb
  1. So as to punish.
  2. In a way that is tiring or exhausting.
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But despite 15 years of deflation, Japan's punishingly high prices still take a toll on its residents' standard of living.
Across the 11 tracks, there's the time and space to reflect his love for music that rarely gets the chance to shine in clubs, whether that's punishingly gnarly breakbeats or glittering modern classical film scores.
The NFPWS clearly identified a shortage of at least 3000 family physicians in Canada and punishingly long hours of work for those now practising.
Sitting in as it punishingly stalls, veers and surges erratically is an orthopedic nightmare, whiplashing cervical vertebrae torturously.
Mainly because of Hungary's punishingly high interest rates.
But what it is is an insipid, boring and punishingly long attempt to tell a story that has been told too many times already.

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