| 单词 | punishment |
| 释义 | punishment (once / 146 pages) n Punishment is the penalty you have to pay when you're caught doing something bad. A teenager's punishment for missing her curfew might be helping her dad clean the garage. When someone is officially penalized for a mistake or a crime, that's punishment. Stealing a car could result in a punishment involving jail, while pinching your little sister might mean a punishment as mild as sitting in a chair and thinking about ways to be nicer next time. The Latin root of punishment and its related verb, punish, is punire, "punish, correct, take vengeance for, or cause pain for some offense." WORD FAMILYpunishment: punishments, self-punishment+/punish: punishable, punished, punishes, punishing, punishment/punishable: punishably/punished: unpunished/punishing: punishingly USAGE EXAMPLESJuries deciding sentences handed down punishments of life in prison about twice as often as the death penalty. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) The running back’s early punishment sets up devastating play-action passes later. Los Angeles Times(Jan 02, 2017) This finding — that people are reflexively prone to “intergroup bias” in punishment — is consistent with what many scientists believe about humans’ evolutionary heritage. New York Times(Dec 09, 2016) n the act of punishing Syn|Hypo|Hyper penalisation, penalization, penalty, sanction castigation, chastisement verbal punishment corporal punishmentthe infliction of physical injury on someone convicted of committing a crime cruel and unusual punishmentpunishment prohibited by the 8th amendment to the U.S. Constitution; includes torture or degradation or punishment too severe for the crime committed detentiona punishment in which a student must stay at school after others have gone home correction, disciplinethe act of punishing economic strangulationpunishment of a group by cutting off commercial dealings with them imprisonmentputting someone in prison or in jail as lawful punishment medicine, musicpunishment for one's actions self-punishmentpunishment inflicted on yourself stickthreat of a penalty penance, self-abasement, self-mortificationvoluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing beating, drubbing, lacing, licking, thrashing, trouncing, whackingthe act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows self-flagellationself-punishment inflicted by whipping spankingthe act of slapping on the buttocks electric shockthe use of electricity to administer punishment or torture capital punishment, death penalty, executing, executionputting a condemned person to death gantlet, gauntleta form of punishment in which a person is forced to run between two lines of men facing each other and armed with clubs or whips to beat the victim kick in the buttpunishment inflicted by kicking the victim in the behind lapidation, stoningthe act of pelting with stones; punishment inflicted by throwing stones at the victim (even unto death) social control control exerted (actively or passively) by group action |
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