punishment
nounEtymology
From Middle English punishement, from Old French punissement, from punir (“to punish”). Equivalent to punish + -ment. Displaced native Old English wīte.
- derived from punissement
- inherited from punishement
Definitions
The act (action) or process of punishing, imposing and/or applying a sanction, typically…
The act (action) or process of punishing, imposing and/or applying a sanction, typically by an authority or a person in authority (for example: a parent or teacher), especially when disappointed or dissatisfied with the behavior or actions of a child, student, or someone else being looked after.
- The naughty children were given a punishment by their teachers.
A penalty to punish wrongdoing, especially for crime.
- a light punishment
- a harsh punishment
A suffering by pain or loss imposed as retribution.
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Any harsh treatment or experience
Any harsh treatment or experience; rough handling.
- a vehicle that can take a lot of punishment
The neighborhood
- synonymcastigation
- synonymchastening
- synonymchastisement
- synonymcorrection
- synonymgruel
- synonympunishment
- synonympunition
- neighborimpunity
- neighborpunishable
- neighborpunisher
- neighborpunishing
- neighborpunitive
- neighborpunitory
- neighbortelishment
- neighboradjudication
- neighborrevenge
- neighborcorporal punishment
- neighbormirror punishment
- neighborretribution
Derived
antipunishment, brute for punishment, capital punishment, collective punishment, counterpunishment, funishment, glutton for punishment, group punishment, nonpunishment, overpunishment, petticoat punishment, punishmental, punishment pass, self-punishment, sucker for punishment, unpunishment, vicarious punishment
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at punishment. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at punishment. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at punishment
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA