punishment
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
punishment/ˈpʌnɪʃmənt/
▶noun
- 1 the action of punishing or the state of being punished.
■ a penalty inflicted.
- 2 rough treatment.
'punishment' also found in these Oxford entries:
abolitionist
- absolution
- administer
- banish
- bastinado
- belt
- best
- birch
- black flag
- boycott
- branks
- cane
- caning
- canvas
- capital punishment
- carrot
- comeuppance
- condemn
- condign
- corporal punishment
- correction
- criminal law
- cucking-stool
- damn
- damnation
- death penalty
- debag
- decimate
- degrade
- demote
- deserts
- deserve
- detention
- discipline
- double jeopardy
- drub
- ducking stool
- evidence
- exemplary
- fair
- fall
- fit
- flog
- fury
- gauntlet
- get
- glutton
- ground
- gruelling
- gut
