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| Main Entry: | punishment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | penalty |
| Synonyms: | abuse, beating, comeuppance, correction, deprivation, discipline, forfeit, forfeiture, gallows, hard work, infliction, maltreatment, mortification, mulct, ostracism, pain, penance, proof, purgatory, reparation, retribution, rod, sanction, short shrift*, slave labor*, suffering, torture, trial, unhappiness, amercement, castigation, chastening, chastisement, confiscation, disciplinary action, just desserts, lumps, punitive measures, rough treatment, sequestration, victimization, what for |
| Antonyms: | encouragement, exoneration, praise, protection, reward |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Main Entry: | punishment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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-nouns
punishment,punition; chastisement, chastening; correction, castigation., discipline, infliction, trial; judgment; penalty [more]; retribution; thunderbold, Nemesis; requital (reward) [more]; penology; retributive justice., lash, scaffold (instrument of punishment) [more]; imprisonment (restraint) [more]; transportation, banishment, expulsion, exile, involuntary exile, ostracism; penal servitude, hard labor; galleys [more]; beating; flagellation, fustigation, gantlet, strappado, estrapade, bastinado, argumentum baculinum, stick law, rap on the knuckles, box on the ear; blow (impulse) [more]; 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 [more]; 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 |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | deserts |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | what is due one |
| Synonyms: | comeuppance, compensation, deserving, discipline, due, merit, payment, penalty, punishment, recompense, requital, retribution, return, revenge, reward, right, chastening, chastisement, disciplining, get hers, get his, guerdon, lumps, meed, talion, what is coming to one, what one is asking for |
| Main Entry: | fine |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | penalty in money |
| Synonyms: | amends, assessment, forfeit, mulct, punishment, reparation, rip, amercement, damages |
| Antonyms: | amends, award, compensation, reimbursement, reward |
| Main Entry: | millstone |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | burden |
| Synonyms: | accountability, affliction, albatross*, anxiety, ball and chain, blame, charge, concern, cross, deadweight, difficulty, encumbrance, grievance, hardship, hindrance, load, mental weight, misfortune, onus, punishment, responsibility, strain, stress, task, thorn in one's side, trial, trouble, worry |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | penance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | reparation for wrong |
| Synonyms: | absolution, atonement, attrition, compensation, compunction, confession, contrition, forgiveness, hair shirt, mortification, penalty, penitence, punishment, remorse, repentance, retribution, rue, ruth, sorrow, suffering, expiation, purgation, remorsefulness, sackcloth and ashes, self-flagellation, shrift |
| Main Entry: | perdition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hell |
| Synonyms: | abyss, affliction, bottomless pit*, condemnation, damnation, fire and brimstone*, inferno, nether world, pit, punishment, purgatory, ruin, suffering, underworld, Abaddon, Gehenna, Hades, everlasting fire, infernal regions, loss of the soul, lower world, place of torment |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rebuke |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | reprimand; harsh criticism |
| Synonyms: | admonition, affliction, blame, censure, comeuppance, condemnation, correction, disapproval, dressing-down*, lecture, lesson, ostracism, punishment, put-down, rap*, rating, rebuff, refusal, remonstrance, reproach, reproof, repulse, row, scolding, snub, tongue-lashing, admonishment, bawling-out, berating, castigation, chewing-out, chiding, earful, expostulation, going-over, hard time, kick in the teeth, objurgation, reprehension, reproval, slap in the face, talking-to, telling-off, upbraiding |
| Antonyms: | compliment, flattery, praise |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | retribution |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | payback for another's action |
| Synonyms: | comeuppance, compensation, eye for an eye*, justice, punishment, reckoning, recompense, redress, repayment, reprisal, requital, retaliation, revenge, reward, satisfaction, vengeance, avengement, avenging, counterblow, just desserts, revanche, what for |
| Antonyms: | forgiveness, pardon, sympathy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | reward |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | payment, prize |
| Synonyms: | accolade, award, benefit, bonus, bounty, comeuppance, compensation, crown*, cue, dividend, fringe benefit, gain, garland, gravy*, grease*, honor, just deserts*, merit, plum*, premium, profit, punishment, recompense, remuneration, repayment, requital, retribution, return, salve, tip, wages, carrot*, feather in cap, goodies, guerdon, meed, perks, strokes, sweetener |
| Notes: | an award is something awarded or granted, as for merit; a reward is something given or received in recompense for worthy behavior or in retribution for evil acts |
| Antonyms: | penalty, punishment |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | scourge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | plague, torment |
| Synonyms: | affliction, bane, correction, curse, infliction, misfortune, penalty, pest, pestilence, punishment, terror, visitation |
| Antonyms: | advantage, benefit, blessing, boon, delight, happiness |
| Main Entry: | sentence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | punishing decree |
| Synonyms: | book, censure, clock, condemnation, decision, determination, dictum, doom, edict, fall, hitch, jolt, judgment, knock, order, penalty, pronouncement, punishment, rap*, ruling, sleep, stretch, term, time, trick, vacation, verdict, considered opinion, getup, sending up the river |
| Antonyms: | accusation, charge |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | whipping |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beating |
| Synonyms: | flogging, punishment, spanking, caning, licking, pasting, pounding, pummeling, tanning, thrashing, trouncing, walloping |
| Main Entry: | demerit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fault |
| Synonyms: | punishment, bad mark, loss of credit, loss of points, mark against one |
| Main Entry: | infliction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | curse |
| Synonyms: | pain, punishment, visitation, castigation |
| Main Entry: | just deserts |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | virtue triumphing over vice |
| Synonyms: | comeuppance, desert, deserts, dose of one's own medicine, dueness, meed, punishment, reward, what is due, what is merited, what's coming to one |
| Main Entry: | retaliation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | vengeance |
| Synonyms: | eye for an eye*, punishment, reprisal, retribution, revenge |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | execution |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | killing |
| Synonyms: | capital punishment, crucifixion, hanging, hit, punishment, rub out*, shooting, beheading, contract killing, decapitation, electrocution, gassing, guillotining, impalement, lethal injection, necktie party, strangling, strangulation |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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