Meaning

1 senses

  1. To punish or discipline extremely harshly.

Examples

10 sentences

  1. The nail went through the wall.

    ruГвоздь пробил стену. — Keiden

    deDer Nagel ging durch die Wand. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  2. Tom pulled some nails out of the wall.

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  3. I need to drive a nail into the wall.

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  4. His attempt at nailing jelly to the wall finally succeeded.

    deSein Versuch, Pudding an die Wand zu nageln, war endlich geglückt. — BraveSentry

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  5. She hammered a nail into the wall and hung the painting.

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Forms

nails someone to the wall, nailing someone to the wall, nailed someone to the wall, nailed someone to the wall
Base formnail someone to the wall · to nail someone to the wall
3rd person singularnails someone to the wall
Present participlenailing someone to the wall
Past simplenailed someone to the wall
Past participlenailed someone to the wall

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theynail someone to the wall
he, she, itnails someone to the wall

Past simpleLesson

all personsnailed someone to the wall

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave nailed someone to the wall
he, she, ithas nailed someone to the wall

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill nail someone to the wall

Synonyms

22 synonyms
correctB2penalizeB2punishB1have someone's headgive someone what forteach someone a lessonamercecastigatechastenchastisecome down onfix someone's wagonhave someone's guts for gartershave someone's hide

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
naganahnailB1naiveC1naivelyC1naivetyC1
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