punishment

Roget category 972

6. Words relating to the sentient and moral
› 6.4. Moral affections
›› 6.4.5. Moral institutions

#972. Punishment

noun

punishment, punition^† — chastisement, chastening — correction, castigation.
discipline, infliction, trial — judgment — penalty etc. 974 — retribution — thunderbolt, Nemesis — requital etc. (reward) 973 — penology — retributive justice.
lash, scaffold etc. (instrument of punishment) 975 — imprisonment etc. (restraint) 751 — transportation, banishment, expulsion, exile, involuntary exile, ostracism — penal servitude, hard labor — galleys etc. 975 — beating etc. v. — flagellation, fustigation^†, gantlet, strappado^†, estrapade^†, bastinado, argumentum baculinum [Lat.], stick law, rap on the knuckles, box on the ear — blow etc. (impulse) 276 — stripe, cuff, kick, buffet, pummel — slap, slap in the face — wipe, douse — coup de grace — torture, rack — picket, picketing — dragonnade^†.
capital punishment — execution — lethal injection — the gas chamber — hanging etc. v. — electrocution, rail-riding, scarpines^† — decapitation, decollation^† — garrotte, garrotto [It] — crucifixion, impalement — firing squad — martyrdom — auto-da-fe [Fr.] — noyade^† — happy dispatch.
[suicide as punishment] hara-kiri, seppuku [Jap.] — drinking the hemlock.

verb

punish — chastise, chasten — castigate, correct, inflict punishment, administer correction, deal retributive justice — cowhide, lambaste [Slang].
visit upon, pay — pay out, serve out — do for — make short work of, give a lesson to, serve one right, make an example of — have a rod in pickle for — give it one.
strike etc. 276 — deal a blow to, administer the lash, smite — slap, slap the face — smack, cuff, box the ears, spank, thwack, thump, beat, lay on, swinge^†, buffet — thresh, thrash, pummel, drub, leather, trounce, sandbag, baste, belabor — lace, lace one's jacket — dress, dress down, give a dressing, trim, warm, wipe, tund^†, cob, bang, strap, comb, lash, lick, larrup, wallop, whop, flog, scourge, whip, birch, cane, give the stick, switch, flagellate, horsewhip, bastinado, towel, rub down with an oaken towel, rib roast, dust one's jacket, fustigate^†, pitch into, lay about one, beat black and blue — beat to a mummy, beat to a jelly — give a black eye.
tar and feather — pelt, stone, lapidate^† — masthead, keelhaul.
execute — bring to the block, bring to the gallows — behead, decapitate, guillotine — decollate — hang, turn off, gibbet, bowstring, hang draw and quarter — shoot — decimate — burn — break on the wheel, crucify — empale^†, impale — flay — lynch — electrocute — gas, send to the gas chamber.
torture — put on, put to the rack — picket.
banish, exile, transport, expel, ostracize — rusticate — drum out — dismiss, disbar, disbench^† — strike off the roll, unfrock — post.
suffer, suffer for, suffer punishment — be flogged.
be executed, suffer the ultimate penalty — be hanged &c. — come to the gallows, mount the gallows, swing [Coll.], twist in the wind, dance upon nothing, die in one's shoes — be rightly served — be electrocuted, fry [Coll.], ride the lightning [Coll.] — face the firing squad.

adjective

punishing etc. v. — penal — punitory^†, punitive — inflictive, castigatory — punished etc. v..

interjection

a la lanterne! [Fr.],

phrase

culpan paena premit comes [Lat.] [Horace]; eating the bitter bread of banishment" [Richard II]; gravis ira regum est semper [Lat.] [Seneca]; sera tamen tacitis paena venit pedibus [Lat.] [Tibullus]; suo sibi gladio hunc jugulo [Lat.] [Terence].

The content on this page comes straight from Project Gutenberg Etext of Roget's Thesaurus No. Two, which consists of the acclaimed work by Peter Mark Roget augmented with more recent material. Some changes were made to the formatting for improved readability.

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