corporal punishment
Noun
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The infliction of physical injury on someone convicted of committing a crime (synset 101163648)
subtypes:
- beating, drubbing, lacing, licking, thrashing, trouncing, whacking - the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows
- electric shock - the use of electricity to administer punishment or torture
- capital punishment, death penalty, executing, execution - putting a condemned person to death
- gantlet, gauntlet - a form of punishment in which a person is forced to run between two lines of men facing each other and armed with clubs or whips to beat the victim
- kick in the butt - punishment inflicted by kicking the victim in the behind
- lapidation, stoning - the act of pelting with stones; punishment inflicted by throwing stones at the victim (even unto death)
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