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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | physical punishment |
| Synonyms: | beating, flagellation, flogging, paddling, spanking, whipping |
| Notes: | corporal punishment, from Latin corpus 'body,' means 'bodily'; capital punishment originally involved losing one's head, from Latin capit- 'head' |
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