All punishment synonyms
punΒ·ishΒ·ment
P p noun punishment
- in-junction β Law. a judicial process or order requiring the person or persons to whom it is directed to do a particular act or to refrain from doing a particular act.
- discipline β training to act in accordance with rules; drill: military discipline.
- expiation β The act of making amends or reparation for guilt or wrongdoing; atonement.
- decapitation β to cut off the head of; behead: Many people were decapitated during the French Revolution.
- lethal injection β dose of deadly chemical into a vein
- chastening β A chastening experience makes you regret that you have behaved badly or stupidly.
- caning β a beating with a cane as a punishment
- deserts β something that is deserved or merited; just reward or punishment
- hammer β Armand, 1898β1990, U.S. businessman and art patron.
- electrocution β The accidental death or suicide by electric shock.
- chastisement β Chastisement is the same as punishment.
- disciplining β Present participle of discipline.
- deadweight β (of a shot) leaving the other balls in the ideal position
- flagellation β the act or process of flagellating.
- millstone β either of a pair of circular stones between which grain or another substance is ground, as in a mill.
- hangings β Plural form of hanging.
- carrot β Carrots are long, thin, orange-coloured vegetables. They grow under the ground, and have green shoots above the ground.
- burden β If you describe a problem or a responsibility as a burden, you mean that it causes someone a lot of difficulty, worry, or hard work.
- execution β The carrying out or putting into effect of a plan, order, or course of action.
- hard times β a period of difficulties or hardship.
- whipping β an instrument for striking, as in driving animals or in punishing, typically consisting of a lash or other flexible part with a more rigid handle.
- objurgation β to reproach or denounce vehemently; upbraid harshly; berate sharply.
- earful β an outpouring of oral information or advice, especially when given without solicitation.
- correction β Corrections are marks or comments made on a piece of work, especially school work, which indicate where there are mistakes and what are the right answers.
- fine β of superior or best quality; of high or highest grade: fine wine.
- avengement β (rare) The inflicting of retributive punishment; satisfaction taken.
- forfeit β a fine; penalty.
- nemesis β something that a person cannot conquer, achieve, etc.: The performance test proved to be my nemesis.
- lesson β a section into which a course of study is divided, especially a single, continuous session of formal instruction in a subject: The manual was broken down into 50 lessons.
- forfeiture β an act of forfeiting.
- infliction β the act of inflicting.
- maltreatment β to treat or handle badly, cruelly, or roughly; abuse: to maltreat a prisoner.
- lumps β a piece or mass of solid matter without regular shape or of no particular shape: a lump of coal.
- judgment β an act or instance of judging.
- castigation β to criticize or reprimand severely.
- abaddon β the Devil (Revelation 9:11)
- mulct β to deprive (someone) of something, as by fraud, extortion, etc.; swindle.
- comeuppance β 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.
- meed β a reward or recompense.
- necktie party β a lynching or other execution by hanging.
- amercement β to punish by imposing a fine not fixed by statute.
- gassing β an affecting, overcoming, or poisoning with gas or fumes.
- atonement β If you do something as an atonement for doing something wrong, you do it to show that you are sorry.
- hard time β a period of difficulties or hardship.
- hades β Geology. the angle between a fault plane and the vertical, measured perpendicular to the strike of the fault; complement of the dip.
- impalement β to fasten, stick, or fix upon a sharpened stake or the like.
- demerit β The demerits of something or someone are their faults or disadvantages.
- gehenna β the valley of Hinnom, near Jerusalem, where propitiatory sacrifices were made to Moloch. II Kings 23:10.
- lower world β Classical Mythology. the regions of the dead, conceived of as lying beneath the surface of the earth; Hades; the underworld.