Punishment

Noun

 * 1) The act or process of punishing, imposing and/or applying a sanction.
 * 2) A penalty to punish wrongdoing, especially for crime.
 * 3) A suffering by pain or loss imposed as retribution
 * 4)  Any treatment or experience so harsh it feels like being punished

Synonyms

 * castigation
 * punition
 * beating

Derived terms

 * corporal punishment
 * mirror punishment

Related terms

 * punishable
 * punisher
 * punishing
 * punitive
 * impunity

Adjectives for Punishment
dreadful; supplementary; inhuman; penitentiary; helpless; corporal; vindictive; servile severe; direful; ignorant; eternal; adequate express; impending; barbarous; everlasting official; fitting; permanent; frightful; exemplary; summary; ignominious; brave; insufferable; ingenious; pleasing; dreadful.

Thesaurus
abuse, admonishment, admonition, amercement, avengement, banishment, battering, beating, caning, cashiering, castigating, castigation, chastening, chastisement, chastising, comeuppance, compensation, correction, criticism, damage, desert, deserts, discipline, disciplining, dressing-down, electrocution, excommunication, execution, exile, fine, flogging, hanging, harm, imprisonment, incarceration, injury, just deserts, lashing, maltreatment, mauling, mulct, paddling, penal retribution, penalization, penalty, penance, price, punition, quittance, rebuke, recompense, reprisal, reproof, requital, retribution, revenge, reward, rod, scolding, scourging, sentence, sentencing, spanking, thrashing, torture, trouncing, what for, what is due, what is merited, whipping

Translations

 * Arabic: (ʻuqūba),  (ʻiqāb)
 * Armenian:
 * Old Armenian: ,
 * Chinese: 懲罰, 惩罚 (chéngfá)
 * Croatian: kazna
 * Dutch: bestraffing
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: rankaiseminen, rangaistus
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:


 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese:, , (chōbatsu)
 * Latvian: ,
 * Macedonian:, казнување
 * Persian: گوشمالی دادن
 * Polish: karanie
 * Portuguese: punição
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovene:
 * Swedish:


 * Arabic: (ʻuqūba),  (ʻiqāb)
 * Armenian:
 * Old Armenian: ,
 * Catalan: càstig
 * Chinese: 刑罰, 刑罚 (xíngfá)
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:


 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: pionós
 * Japanese:, , 処罰
 * Latvian:
 * Macedonian:
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Dutch:, boetedoening,  ,
 * French:


 * Macedonian:


 * Dutch:, beproeving,
 * French:


 * Polish: wycisk


 * : наказание (nakazánie) (1)
 * : ענישה
 * : punizione
 * : 벌 (beol)
 * : ceza, siza
 * : punitio
 * : wīte
 * : (tanbih)
 * : punição
 * : pedeapsă
 * : castigo, penitencia
 * : శిక్ష (Siksha), దండన (daMDana)