Punishment

Penalizing

Synonyms: Penalizing, disciplining, damnation, chastisement, punishing, retribution, and chastising.

Correction

Synonyms: Penalty, correction, penance, reward, medicine, the rap, vengeance, judgement, comeuppance, chastisement, discipline, retribution, sentence, one's just deserts, the price, requital, justice, sanction, and jankers.

Beating

Synonyms: Battering, beating, pounding, hammering, drubbing, bashing, hiding, maltreatment, ill treatment, ill use, mishandling, injury, harm, thrashing, thumping, pummelling, buffeting, walloping, roughing up, belting, mistreatment, abuse, rough handling, manhandling, and damage.

Example Sentences

The punishment was too harsh.

They deserved their fair punishment.

Punishment must fit the crime.

He feared the impending punishment.