punishment
A penalty to punish wrongdoing, especially for crime.
Other meanings
A suffering by pain or loss imposed as retribution.
Any harsh treatment or experience; rough handling.
“a vehicle that can take a lot of punishment”
Related words
- antipunishment
- counterpunishment
- funishment
- nonpunishment
- overpunishment
- unpunishment
- brute for punishment
- capital punishment
- collective punishment
- glutton for punishment
- group punishment
- punishmental
Example sentences
Word history
From Old French "punissement".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “punishment” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.