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punishment
noun as in penalty
Strongest matches
abuse, beating, discipline, forfeiture, retribution, sanction, suffering, torture, trial
Strong matches
amercement, castigation, chastening, chastisement, comeuppance, confiscation, correction, deprivation, forfeit, gallows, infliction, lumps, maltreatment, mortification, mulct, ostracism, pain, penance, proof, purgatory, reparation, rod, sequestration, unhappiness, victimization
Weak matches
disciplinary action, hard work, punitive measures, rough treatment, short shrift, what for
Example Sentences
This gave way to ever-more-sophisticated accounting and management strategies that employed metrics for the depreciation of slave worker value and the dishing out of incentives—both rewards and punishments—for their performance.
Bishop Montgomery received the harshest punishment, with 24 players declared ineligible, forcing the school to cancel its football season.
Fields said he has gained 20 pounds since the end of last season, helping him take punishment better and run through tackles.
"Ordinary people don't care about the semantics, they want to see punishment, and public opinion is very much against Andrew, the Palace knows that, and the language very much reflect that".
“One of the very first cases citing my book sent a man to his capital punishment,” he explained of an earlier dictionary.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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