Battering, chastising, comeuppance, abuse, and bashing are all synonyms for punishment. Reward and mercy are these antonyms of punishment. And here are another 52 synonyms for punishment.
Punishment Synonyms
1. penalizing
- Chastising
- Damnation
- Disciplining
- Penalizing
- Punishing
- Retribution
- Chastisement
2. correction
- Comeuppance
- Correction
- Discipline
- Jankers
- Judgement
- Justice
- Medicine
- One's just deserts
- Penalty
- Penance
- Requital
- Retribution
- Reward
- Sanction
- Sentence
- The price
- The rap
- Vengeance
- Chastisement
3. beating
- Abuse
- Bashing
- Battering
- Beating
- Belting
- Buffeting
- Damage
- Drubbing
- Hammering
- Hiding
- Ill treatment
- Ill use
- Injury
- Maltreatment
- Manhandling
- Mishandling
- Mistreatment
- Pounding
- Pummelling
- Rough handling
- Roughing up
- Thrashing
- Thumping
- Walloping
- Harm