punishment
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punishment |
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abuse, admonishment, admonition, amercement, avengement, banishment, battering, beating, caning, cashiering, castigating, castigation,
chastening, chastisement, chastising, comeuppance, compensation, correction, criticism, damage, desert,
deserts, discipline, disciplining,
dressing-down, electrocution, excommunication, execution, exile, fine,
flogging, hanging, harm,
imprisonment, incarceration, injury, just deserts, lashing, maltreatment, mauling, mulct, paddling,
penal retribution, penalization, penalty, penance, price, punition, quittance, rebuke, recompense, reprisal, reproof, requital, retribution, revenge, reward, rod, scolding, scourging, sentence, sentencing, spanking, thrashing, torture, trouncing, what for,
what is due, what is merited, whipping
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capital punishment |
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beheading, burning, crucifixion, decapitation, decollation, defenestration,
electrocution, execution, fusillade, garrote, gassing, hanging, hemlock, judicial murder, lapidation, necktie party, poisoning, shooting, stoning, strangling, strangulation, the ax, the block, the chair, the gallows, the gas chamber, the guillotine, the hot seat, the rope
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corporal punishment |
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bastinado, basting, battery, beating, belting, buffeting, caning, clubbing, cowhiding, cudgeling, drubbing, flagellation, flailing, flogging,
fustigation, horsewhipping, lacing, lashing, pistol-whipping, rawhiding, scourging, spanking, strapping, stripes, swingeing, switching, thrashing, trouncing, truncheoning, whipping
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Main entries similar to: punishment
comeuppance, compensation, correction, desert, deserts,
discipline, fine, infliction, judgment, justice, lesson, nemesis, pain,
pay, payment, penalty, penance, penology, persecution, price, quittance, recompense, reprisal, requital, retaliation, retribution, revenge, reward, sanction, scourge, sentence, severity, thrashing, visitation, what for
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