| Main Entry: | confiscation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | seizure |
Synonyms: |
appropriation, arrogation, expropriation |
| Main Entry: | appropriation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | stealing |
Synonyms: |
confiscation, embezzlement, expropriation, grab, misappropriation, pilfering, seizure, takeover, taking, usurpation |
Antonyms: |
bestowal, giving, return |
| Main Entry: | capture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | catching, forceful holding |
Synonyms: |
abduction, acquirement, acquisition, apprehension, appropriating, appropriation, arrest, bag*, bust, catch, collar, commandeering, confiscation, drop*, ensnaring, fall, gaining, grab*, grasping, hit the jackpot, hook*, imprisonment, knock off, laying hold of, nab, nail, obtaining, occupation, pick up*, pinch*, pull*, run in, securing, seizing, seizure, snatching, sweep*, taking, taking captive, taking into custody, trapping, trip, winning |
Antonyms: |
freeing, letting go, liberalization, release |
| Main Entry: | punishment |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | seizure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | capture, taking |
Synonyms: |
abduction, annexation, apprehension, arrest, bust, collar, commandeering, confiscation, drop, grab, grabbing, hook*, pinch*, seizing, snatch |
Antonyms: |
letting go, liberation, release |
| Main Entry: | arrogation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | usurpation |
Synonyms: |
appropriation, confiscation, encroachment, preemption, seizure |
| Main Entry: | expropriation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | seizure |
Synonyms: |
appropriation, arrogation, confiscation, impounding |
| Main Entry: | usurpation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | seizing something |
Synonyms: |
abduction, annexation, apprehension, appropriation, arrest, arrogation, assumption, bust, collar, commandeering, confiscation, drop*, grab*, grabbing, hook*, pinch*, preemption, seizing, seizure, snatch |
| Main Entry: | punishment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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| Concept: | Punishment. |
| Category: | 5. Institutions |
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-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
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Antonyms: |
reward |
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