Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Punishment

Nouns
  • punishment, punition
  • chastisement, chastening
  • correction, castigation. discipline, infliction, trial
  • judgment
  • penalty etc. Penalty
  • retribution
  • thunderbolt, Nemesis
  • requital etc. (reward) Reward
  • penology
  • retributive justice. lash, scaffold etc. (instrument of punishment) [Instrument of punishment.] Scourge
  • imprisonment etc. (restraint) Restraint
  • transportation, banishment, expulsion, exile, involuntary exile, ostracism
  • penal servitude, hard labor
  • galleys etc. [Instrument of punishment.] Scourge
  • beating etc. v.
  • flagellation, fustigation, gantlet, strappado, estrapade, bastinado, stick law, rap on the knuckles, box on the ear
  • blow etc. (impulse) Impulse
  • 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
  • crucifixion, impalement
  • firing squad
  • martyrdom
  • noyade
  • happy dispatch. [suicide as punishment] hara-kiri
  • drinking the hemlock.
Verbs
  • 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. Impulse
  • 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 etc.
  • 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.
Adjectives
  • punishing etc. v.
  • penal
  • punitory, punitive
  • inflictive, castigatory
  • punished etc. v..
Phrases
  • eating the bitter bread of banishment" [Richard II]