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punishment - 20 thesaurus results
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
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Main Entry: punishment
Part of Speech: noun
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Adjectives:
self, baculine, castigatory, chastened, condemnatory, condemned, damnatory, exilic, inflictive, non, punished, punishing, punitive, punitory
Concept Thesaurus
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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