Words and phrases that have a meaning related to punishment:  (316 results)
Often used in the same context:
sentence, sanction, penalty, reprimand, imprisonment, sentencer, banishment, caning, mitigating circumstances, retribution, suspension, transgression, censure, corporal punishment, penality, chastisement, prison, expulsion, fines, leniency, convict, admonishment, conviction, discipline, blameworthiness, penance, parole, imprison ment, disqualification, clemency, lenience, revenge, dishonorable discharge, incarceration, probation, wrath, murderers, misbehavior, disbarment, infraction, misdeed, egregiousness, rustication, mitigating circumstance, beatings, yellow card, prosecution, jail, court martial, pardon, scolding, apostasy, executions, misconduct, confinement, indeterminate sentence, lese majesty, deterrent, disapprobation, retaliation, disfellowship, imposable, humiliation, indiscretion, rapists, penal, adulterers, verdict, culpability, executioner, remorse, scourging, penalization, dismissal, ostracism, impiety, plea bargain, transgressor, reinstatement, spanking, rebuke, justice, stoning, comeuppance, mens rea, disobedience, zina, opprobrium, adultery, penal code, condign, reproach, aggravator, consequences, blasphemy, offenders, hangings, penal servitude, slap, reprisals, penalisation, sin, punishments, penalties, infliction, calamity, expiation, reward, vengeance, inflictions, misfortune, castigation, hardships, peril, suffering, blame, disposal, inhumane, reformative, psychotherapeutic, psychotherapy, regulation, abovementioned, coercive, denial, disciplinary, disclosure, formalized, grief, instrumental, aforementioned, ameliorative, dysfunctional, electromotive, empathy
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., abolition, absolutism, abusive, amnesty, anathematise, anathematize, anathemise, anathemize, apologist, ate, ban, banish, beat, beating, beat up, birch, birch rod, cane, cangue, capital offense, castigate, castigation, catch it, chasten, chastisement, comminate, commination, comminatory, commutation, condemnation, condign, conviction, criminal, criminal law, crucifixion, cruel and unusual punishment, cursed, damnation, damned, denunciative, denunciatory, deserved, despotism, detention, deterrent example, doomed, drubbing, ducking stool, economic strangulation, electric shock, eternal damnation, example, excruciation, execrate, execute, executed, executioner, exemplary damages, flagellation, flagellum, flogging, gantlet, gate, gauntlet, get, get it, give, hanging, harshness, hell, hellfire, impalement, imprisonment, impunity, incorrigible, indulgence, infernal region, inferno, instrument of torture, judgment of conviction, kick in the butt, lacing, lapidation, lashing, lay, lesson, licking, masochism, masochist, medicine, military court, military law, minor, music, nether region, object lesson, paddle, pardon, penal, penalise, penalize, penal code, penal facility, penal institution, penance, penitentiary, perdition, pillory, prison, prison house, proportional, public executioner, punish, punishable, punishing, punitive, punitive damages, punitory, put to death, ransom, rationale, re-sentencing, receive, red region, reformatory, reprieve, respite, scourge, self-abasement, self-flagellation, self-mortification, self-punishment, sentence, servitude, sigyn, sisyphus, slapped, smart money, stocks, stoning, subdue, sufferable, supernal, switch, switcher, tame, tanning, tar-and-feather, tarred-and-feathereda, the pit, thrashing, threaten, trouncing, tyranny, unjust, unjustly, unredeemed, unsaved, venial, whacking, whereof, whipper, whipping, work over
More general:
social control
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— Nouns for punishment: procedures, cells, training, techniques, works, power, relationship, dreams, strategies, theory, ranges, more...

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