Other Words for Punishment

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Punishment as a Adjective has these synonyms:

injury, harm, damage, abuse, maltreatment, mauling, beating, thrashing, trouncing, manhandling, battering, torture
Example: How are professional wrestlers able to withstand so much punishment.

Punishment as a Verb has these synonyms:

chastisement, chastising, castigation, castigating, discipline, disciplining, chastening, scolding, rebuke, reproof, dressing-down, admonishment, admonition, correction, punitive measures
Example: Every society must continually revise its approach to the punishment of criminals.

penance, penalty, sentence, sentencing, just deserts, imprisonment, incarceration, jailing or also gaoling, lashing, flogging, beating, whipping, scourging, spanking, caning, birching, paddling, exile, banishment, excommunication, cashiering
Example: Her punishment is to perform 20 hours a week of public service for a year. Stop whimpering and take your punishment like a man.

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