chastening

Strongest matches

• acute
• agonizing
• exquisite
• grueling
• harrowing
• intense
• searing
• severe
• unbearable

Strong matches

• burning
• consuming
• piercing
• punishing
• racking
• rending
• shooting
• stabbing
• tearing
• tormenting
• torturing

Weak matches

• extreme
• insufferable
• sharp
• torturesome
• unendurable
• violent

Strongest matches

• arduous
• backbreaking
• brutal
• demanding
• excruciating
• exhausting
• fierce
• laborious
• punishing
• strenuous
• tiring
• torturous
• trying

Weak matches

• crushing
• fatiguing
• grinding
• hairy
• hard
• harsh
• heavy
• racking
• severe
• stiff

Strongest match

• punitive

Weak matches

• corrective
• penalizing
• punishing
• punitory
• reformatory
• retributive

Strong matches

• castigation
• criticism
• discipline
• penalty
• rebuke
• reprimand
• reproof

Strong matches

• chastisement
• comeuppance
• compensation
• deserving
• discipline
• disciplining
• due
• guerdon
• lumps
• meed
• merit
• payment
• penalty
• punishment
• recompense
• requital
• retribution
• return
• revenge
• reward
• right

Weak matches

• get hers
• get his
• talion
• what is coming to one
• what one is asking for

Strongest matches

• abuse
• beating
• discipline
• forfeiture
• retribution
• sanction
• suffering
• torture
• trial

Strong matches

• amercement
• castigation
• chastisement
• comeuppance
• confiscation
• correction
• deprivation
• forfeit
• gallows
• infliction
• lumps
• maltreatment
• mortification
• mulct
• ostracism
• pain
• penance
• proof
• purgatory
• reparation
• rod
• sequestration
• unhappiness
• victimization

Weak matches

• disciplinary action
• hard work
• punitive measures
• rough treatment
• short shrift
• what for