to discipline
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3.4
- verb
- /ˈdɪsəplɪn/
:
disciplinar
- When my kids misbehave, I make sure to discipline them fairly and consistently.
- discipline children
- discipline students
- authority to discipline
When they're bad, you have to discipline them to make them good.
- When they're bad, you have to discipline them to make them good.
- At no point have we had to discipline with kind of extreme type of violence.
- But, but essentially we don't have any powers to, to discipline anybody really.
- So what I've had it with is people disciplining other people's children.
- You know, if you want to be a warrior or a soldier, you have to discipline yourself.
- Both cases were settled out of court and in neither case did Merrill discipline Stamenson.
- But that's the way that Tommy first disciplined me.
- Rivers has always been defiant and even then Angie and Hunter wouldn't discipline him.
- Yeah, yeah, well, they use this to discipline people.
Examples
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Do you think I should discipline my kids more?
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When they're bad, you have to discipline them to make them good.
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How I discipline my kids is none of your business.
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Now, see, I'm the principal, And I have to discipline you.
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Amy, do you think you can discipline yourself to learn at home as Beth has done?
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You can't be afraid to discipline them.
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Discipline your kids, for God's sake.
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If you can't discipline him, I'll do it for you.
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If you won't discipline him, I'll come back and speak with his mother.
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But from now on, if I make a mistake or I screw something up, you should feel free to discipline me in whatever way you see fit.
Synonyms
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1.0
To teach someone skills by practice and help
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1.0
Make someone suffer for doing something wrong
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4.2
Punish someone so they learn not to do it again
65
7.7
To scold or punish someone to improve their behavior
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5.5
Punish someone or make them suffer a loss for breaking a rule
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4.2
To train a person or animal to do something by repeating and giving rewards
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4.2
Control people so they behave properly
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6.8
To use firm authority to make people work harder and follow rules
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7.7
To control people strictly with many rules
Antonyms
Compounds
2
4.1
A subject of science that studies a part of nature like physics or biology
A subject like philosophy or literature that teaches general knowledge and thinking skills
How Strict
Surface Forms
Etymology
Discipline comes from Latin discere ('to learn') and is related to disciple ('student'), so to discipline someone is to train them to behave, sometimes by giving punishment so they learn.