punishment

Main Entry:
punishment [puhn-ish-muhnt]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: penalty
Synonyms: abuse, amercement, beating, castigation, chastening, chastisement, comeuppance, confiscation, correction, deprivation, disciplinary action, discipline, forfeit, forfeiture, gallows, hard work, infliction, just desserts, lumps, maltreatment, mortification, mulct, ostracism, pain, penance, proof, punitive measures, purgatory, reparation, retribution, rod, rough treatment, sanction, sequestration, short shrift, slave labor, suffering, torture, trial, unhappiness, victimization, what for
Antonyms: encouragement, exoneration, praise, protection, reward
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Punishment.
Category: 5. Institutions
Synonyms:
-nouns
punishment,punition; chastisement, chastening; correction, castigation., discipline, infliction, trial; judgment; penalty; retribution; thunderbold, Nemesis; requital (reward); penology; retributive justice., lash, scaffold (instrument of punishment); imprisonment (restraint); transportation, banishment, expulsion, exile, involuntary exile, ostracism; penal servitude, hard labor; galleys; beating; flagellation, fustigation, gantlet, strappado, estrapade, bastinado, argumentum baculinum, stick law, rap on the knuckles, box on the ear; blow (impulse); stripe, cuff, kick, buffet, pummel; slap, slap in the face; wipe, douse; coup de grace; torture, rack; picket, picketing; dragonnade., capital punishment; execution; hanging; electrocution, rail-riding, scarpines; decapitation, decollation; garrotte, garrotto; crucifixion, impalement; martyrdom; auto-da-fe; noyade; happy dispatch., hara-kiri, seppuku.
-verbs
punish; chastise, chasten; castigate, correct, inflict punishment, administer correction, deal retributive justice; cowhide, lambaste., visit upon, pay; pay out, serve out; do for; make short work of, give a lesson to, serve one right, make an example of; have a rod in pickle for; give it one., strike; deal a blow to, administer the lash, smite; slap, slap the face; smack, cuff, box the ears, spank, thwack, thump, beat, lay on, swinge, buffet; thresh, thrash, pummel, drub, leather, trounce, sandbag, baste, belabor; lace, lace one's jacket; dress, give a dressing, trim, warm, wipe, tund, cob, bang, strap, comb, lash, lick, larrup, wallop, whop, flog, scourge, whip, birch, cane, give the stick, switch, flagellate, horsewhip, bastinado, towel, rub down with an oaken towel, rib roast, dust one's jacket, fustigate, pitch into, lay about one, beat black and blue; beat to a mummy, beat to a jelly; give a black eye., tar and feather; pelt, stone, lapidate; masthead, keelhaul., execute; bring to the block, bring to the gallows; behead, decapitate, guillotine; decollate; hang, turn off, gibbet, bowstring, hang, draw and quarter; shoot; decimate; burn; break on the wheel, crucify; empale, impale; flay; lynch; electrocute., torture; put on, put to the rack; picket., banish, exile, transport, expel, ostracize; rusticate; drum out; dismiss, disbar, disbench; strike off the roll, unfrock; post., suffer, suffer for, suffer punishment; be flogged., be hanged, come to the gallows, dance upon nothing, die in one's shoes; be rightly served.
-adjectives
punishing; penal; punitory, punitive; inflictive, castigatory; punished.
-phrases
culpan paena premit comes [Horace]; "eating the bitter bread of banishment" [Richard II]; gravis ira regum est semper [Seneca]; sera tamen tacitis paena venit pedibus
Antonyms: reward
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Main Entry: burden
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: mental weight; stress
Synonyms: Herculean task, accountability, affliction, albatross, anxiety, ball and chain, blame, care, charge, clog, concern, deadweight, difficulty, duty, encumbrance, excess baggage, grievance, hardship, hindrance, load, millstone, misfortune, mishap, obstruction, onus, punishment, responsibility, sorrow, strain, task, tax, thorn in one's side, trial, trouble, weary load, work, worry
Antonyms: aid, help, relief
Main Entry: correction
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: discipline
Synonyms: admonition, castigation, chastisement, punishment, punition, reformation, reproof, rod
Antonyms: allowance, coddling, indulgence, permissiveness, petting, spoiling
Main Entry: deserts
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: what is due one
Synonyms: chastening, chastisement, comeuppance, compensation, deserving, discipline, disciplining, due, get hers, get his, guerdon, lumps, meed, merit, payment, penalty, punishment, recompense, requital, retribution, return, revenge, reward, right, talion, what is coming to one, what one is asking for
Main Entry: execution
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: killing
Synonyms: beheading, capital punishment, contract killing, crucifixion, decapitation, electrocution, gassing, guillotining, hanging, hit, impalement, lethal injection, necktie party, punishment, rub out, shooting, strangling, strangulation
Main Entry: fine
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: penalty in money
Synonyms: amends, amercement, assessment, damages, forfeit, mulct, punishment, reparation, rip
Antonyms: amends, award, compensation, reimbursement, reward
Main Entry: judgment
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: doom, fate
Synonyms: affliction, castigation, chastisement, correction, damnation, infliction, manifestation, misfortune, mortification, punishment, retribution, visitation
Notes: judgment is the U.S. preferred spelling while judgement is the British preferred spelling
Main Entry: lesson
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: helpful example, communication
Synonyms: admonition, censure, chiding, deterrent, exemplar, helpful word, message, model, moral, noble action, notice, precept, punishment, rebuke, reprimand, reproof, scolding, warning
Notes: lessen means to decrease in size, extent, or range, while a lesson is a unit of instruction
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