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corporal punishment

noun

1 corporal punishment

The infliction of physical injury on someone convicted of committing a crime.

is a specific kind of: penalisation, penalization, penalty, punishment.

is a broader term that covers: beating, drubbing, lacing, licking, thrashing, trouncing, whacking | electric shock | capital punishment, death penalty, executing, execution | gantlet, gauntlet | kick in the butt | lapidation, stoning.

Dutch: lijfstraf

Moby thesaurus: bastinado, basting, battery, beating, belting, buffeting, caning, clubbing, cowhiding, cudgeling, drubbing, flagellation, flailing, flogging, fustigation, horsewhipping, lacing, lashing, pistol-whipping, rawhiding ... show more.

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