"punishment" | Definition and Related Words

Noun

is a type of: social control - control exerted (actively or passively) by group action
subtypes:
- castigation, chastisement - verbal punishment
- corporal punishment - the infliction of physical injury on someone convicted of committing a crime
- cruel and unusual punishment - punishment prohibited by the 8th amendment to the U.S. Constitution; includes torture or degradation or punishment too severe for the crime committed
- detention - a punishment in which a student must stay at school after others have gone home
- correction, discipline - the act of disciplining
- economic strangulation - punishment of a group by cutting off commercial dealings with them
- imprisonment - putting someone in prison or in jail as lawful punishment
- medicine, music - punishment for one's actions
- self-punishment - punishment inflicted on yourself
- stick - threat of a penalty
- penance, self-abasement, self-mortification - voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing
same as: penalisation, penalization, penalty