| NOUN | act | corporal punishment | the infliction of physical injury on someone convicted of committing a crime |
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| Meaning | 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 |
| 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 |
| Spanish | castigo corporal | |
| Catalan | càstig corporal | |
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