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What does punishable mean?

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Adjective
  1. Able to be punished; appropriate for punishment.
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In countries where military service is compulsory, failure to perform this duty is frequently punishable by law.
Inflicting or otherwise causing a blighty wound was considered a capital offense, which was punishable by execution by a firing squad.
A special law was enacted to make such abductions a capital offence, punishable by hanging.
Under the Indian government's 1985 Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, possession of charas is punishable by up to a year in prison.
The Law Commission proposed that the privilege should be restricted to incrimination for crimes punishable by imprisonment.
Indeed, I would go further than mere encouragement and make voting compulsory, non-compliance being punishable by a fine.

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