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NOUN

punishing decree

Synonyms

STRONGEST

censure decision edict judgment order penalty punishment ruling term verdict

STRONG

book clock condemnation determination dictum doom fall getup hitch jolt knock pronouncement rap sleep stretch time trick vacation

WEAK

considered opinion sending up the river

Antonyms

STRONGEST

encouragement indecision praise reward

WEAK

accusation charge

VERB

decide punishment

Synonyms

STRONGEST

blame condemn confine convict imprison incarcerate jail penalize punish

STRONG

adjudge adjudicate damn denounce devote doom impound judge ordain proscribe railroad rule settle

WEAK

mete out pass judgment put away put on ice send to prison send up the river take the fall throw the book at

Antonyms

STRONGEST

exonerate free let go liberate pardon praise release reward

STRONG

commend

WEAK

accuse charge

Example Sentences

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Yet he had a feel for Melville’s sentences, in which everything might go spectacularly right.

From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026

This means their death sentences will be commuted to life imprisonment after two years, without the possibility of sentence reduction or parole, Xinhua reports.

From BBC • May 7, 2026

Forty years ago my own “Bearing the Cross” devoted only three sentences to that summer, noting how King, a preacher’s son, became the group’s “devotional leader.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2026

But lawmakers on Thursday overrode his veto of a law changing how prison sentences are calculated.

From Barron's • Apr. 30, 2026

Some died of the disease before they received their sentences.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French