English > punishment: 1 sense > noun 1, act| Meaning | The act of punishing. |
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| Synonyms | penalty, penalization, penalisation |
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| Narrower | castigation, chastisement | verbal punishment |
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| corporal punishment | The infliction of physical injury on someone convicted of committing a crime |
| cruel and unusual punishment | punishment prohibited by the 8th amendment to the U.S. Constitution |
| detention | A punishment in which a student must stay at school after others have gone home |
| discipline, correction | The act of punishing |
| economic strangulation | punishment of a group by cutting off commercial dealings with them |
| imprisonment | putting someone in prison or in jail as lawful / lawful / lawful punishment |
| music, medicine | punishment for one's actions |
| penance, self-mortification, self-abasement | Voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing |
| self-punishment | punishment inflicted on yourself |
| stick | threat of a penalty |
| Broader | social control | Control exerted (actively or passively) by group action |
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| Spanish | castigo, penalización, pena |
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| Catalan | càstig, penalització, pena, puniment |
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| Adjectives | penal | of or relating to punishment |
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| Verbs | punish | impose a penalty on |
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