English > corporal punishment: 1 sense > noun 1, actMeaning | The infliction of physical injury on someone convicted of committing a crime. |
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Narrower | beating, thrashing, licking, drubbing, lacing, trouncing, whacking | The act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows |
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electric shock | The use of electricity to administer punishment or torture |
execution, executing, capital punishment, death penalty | putting a condemned person to death |
gauntlet, gantlet | A form of punishment in which a person is forced to run between two lines of men facing each other and armed with clubs or whips to beat the victim |
kick in the butt | punishment inflicted by kicking the victim in the behind |
stoning, lapidation | The act of pelting with stones |
Broader | punishment, penalty, penalization, penalisation | The act of punishing |
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Spanish | castigo corporal |
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Catalan | càstig corporal |
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