punishment; penalty; penalization; penalisation




the act of punishing


Type of:
  • social control

Types:
  • castigation; chastisement
  • corporal punishment
  • cruel and unusual punishment
  • detention
  • discipline; correction
  • economic strangulation
  • imprisonment
  • music; medicine
  • self-punishment
  • stick
  • penance; self-mortification; self-abasement


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