Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of penalty is as below...

Pain :: Pain (n.) Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty..

Forfete :: Forfete (v. i.) To incur a penalty; to transgress.

Suffer :: Suffer (v. i.) To undergo punishment; specifically, to undergo the penalty of death..

Fine :: Fine (n.) To impose a pecuniary penalty upon for an offense or breach of law; to set a fine on by judgment of a court; to punish by fine; to mulct; as, the trespassers were fined ten dollars..

Expiate :: Expiate (v. t.) To extinguish the guilt of by sufferance of penalty or some equivalent; to make complete satisfaction for; to atone for; to make amends for; to make expiation for; as, to expiate a crime, a guilt, or sin..

Ransom :: Ransom (n.) To redeem from captivity, servitude, punishment, or forfeit, by paying a price; to buy out of servitude or penalty; to rescue; to deliver; as, to ransom prisoners from an enemy..

Pardonable :: Pardonable (a.) Admitting of pardon; not requiring the excution of penalty; venial; excusable; -- applied to the offense or to the offender; as, a pardonable fault, or culprit..

Doom :: Doom (v. t.) To ordain as penalty; hence, to mulct or fine..

Forfeiture :: Forfeiture (n.) That which is forfeited; a penalty; a fine or mulct.

Condemn :: Condemn (v. t.) To pronounce a judicial sentence against; to sentence to punishment, suffering, or loss; to doom; -- with to before the penalty..

Penalize :: Penalize (v. t.) To put a penalty on. See Penalty, 3..

Pain :: Pain (n.) To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.

Amercement :: Amercement (n.) The infliction of a penalty at the discretion of the court; also, a mulct or penalty thus imposed. It differs from a fine,in that the latter is, or was originally, a fixed and certain sum prescribed by statue for an offense; but an amercement is arbitrary. Hence, the act or practice of affeering. [See Affeer.].

Impose :: Impose (v. t.) To lay as a charge, burden, tax, duty, obligation, command, penalty, etc.; to enjoin; to levy; to inflict; as, to impose a toll or tribute..

Discharge :: Discharge (v. t.) That which discharges or releases from an obligation, liability, penalty, etc., as a price of ransom, a legal document..

Forfeiter :: Forfeiter (n.) One who incurs a penalty of forfeiture.

Whipper :: Whipper (n.) One who whips; especially, an officer who inflicts the penalty of legal whipping..

Redeem :: Redeem (v. t.) To pay the penalty of; to make amends for; to serve as an equivalent or offset for; to atone for; to compensate; as, to redeem an error..

Mulct :: Mulct (n.) A fine or penalty, esp. a pecuniary punishment or penalty..

Beast :: Beast (n.) A penalty at beast, omber, etc. Hence: To be beasted, to be beaten at beast, omber, etc..

Random Fonts

Most Popular