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All deserts synonyms

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noun deserts

  • chastening — A chastening experience makes you regret that you have behaved badly or stupidly.
  • chastisement — Chastisement is the same as punishment.
  • comeuppance — If you say that someone has got their comeuppance, you approve of the fact that they have been punished or have suffered for something wrong that they have done.
  • compensation — Compensation is money that someone who has experienced loss or suffering claims from the person or organization responsible, or from the state.
  • deserving — If you describe a person, organization, or cause as deserving, you mean that you think they should be helped.
  • discipline — training to act in accordance with rules; drill: military discipline.
  • due — together; in unison.
  • guerdon — a reward, recompense, or requital.
  • lumps — a piece or mass of solid matter without regular shape or of no particular shape: a lump of coal.
  • meed — a reward or recompense.
  • merit — claim to respect and praise; excellence; worth.
  • payment — something that is paid; an amount paid; compensation; recompense.
  • penalty — a punishment imposed or incurred for a violation of law or rule.
  • punishment — the act of punishing.
  • recompense — to repay; remunerate; reward, as for service, aid, etc.
  • requital — the act of requiting.
  • retribution — requital according to merits or deserts, especially for evil.
  • return — to go or come back, as to a former place, position, or state: to return from abroad; to return to public office; to return to work.
  • revenge — to exact punishment or expiation for a wrong on behalf of, especially in a resentful or vindictive spirit: He revenged his murdered brother.
  • reward — a sum of money offered for the detection or capture of a criminal, the recovery of lost or stolen property, etc.
  • right — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
  • talion — lex talionis.
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