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Chasten :: Chasten (v. t.) To correct by punishment; to inflict pain upon the purpose of reclaiming; to discipline; as, to chasten a son with a rod..

Strike :: Strike (v. t.) To punish; to afflict; to smite.

Cob :: Cob (n.) A punishment consisting of blows inflicted on the buttocks with a strap or a flat piece of wood.

Punish :: Punish (v. t.) To impose a penalty upon; to afflict with pain, loss, or suffering for a crime or fault, either with or without a view to the offender's amendment; to cause to suffer in retribution; to chasten; as, to punish traitors with death; a father punishes his child for willful disobedience..

Extenuation :: Extenuation (n.) The act of axtenuating or the state of being extenuated; the act of making thin, slender, or lean, or of palliating; diminishing, or lessening; palliation, as of a crime; mitigation, as of punishment..

Castigate :: Castigate (v. t.) To punish by stripes; to chastise by blows; to chasten; also, to chastise verbally; to reprove; to criticise severely..

Requital :: Requital (n.) The act of requiting; also, that which requites; return, good or bad, for anything done; in a good sense, compensation; recompense; as, the requital of services; in a bad sense, retaliation, or punishment; as, the requital of evil deeds..

Knout :: Knout (v. t.) To punish with the knout.

Arbitrary :: Arbitrary (a.) Depending on will or discretion; not governed by any fixed rules; as, an arbitrary decision; an arbitrary punishment..

Blanketing :: Blanketing (n.) The act or punishment of tossing in a blanket.

Horse :: Horse (n.) A frame of timber, shaped like a horse, on which soldiers were made to ride for punishment..

Decimation :: Decimation (n.) A selection of every tenth person by lot, as for punishment..

Penal :: Penal (a.) Incurring punishment; subject to a penalty; as, a penalact of offense..

Ganch :: Ganch (n.) To drop from a high place upon sharp stakes or hooks, as the Turks dropped malefactors, by way of punishment..

Damned :: Damned (a.) Sentenced to punishment in a future state; condemned; consigned to perdition.

Punishment :: Punishment (n.) The act of punishing.

Vindicate :: Vindicate (v. t.) To avenge; to punish; as, a war to vindicate or punish infidelity..

Penitentiary :: Penitentiary (n.) A house of correction, in which offenders are confined for punishment, discipline, and reformation, and in which they are generally compelled to labor..

Animadversion :: Animadversion (n.) Judicial cognizance of an offense; chastisement; punishment.

Strapper :: Strappado (v. t.) To punish or torture by the strappado.

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