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All punishment synonyms

punΒ·ishΒ·ment
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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, 1898–1990, 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.
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