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Reprobate :: Reprobate (a.) Abandoned to punishment; hence, morally abandoned and lost; given up to vice; depraved..

Crucifixion :: Crucifixion (n.) The act of nailing or fastening a person to a cross, for the purpose of putting him to death; the use of the cross as a method of capital punishment..

Dispunishable :: Dispunishable (a.) Without penal restraint; not punishable.

Varuna :: Varuna (n.) The god of the waters; the Indian Neptune. He is regarded as regent of the west, and lord of punishment, and is represented as riding on a sea monster, holding in his hand a snaky cord or noose with which to bind offenders, under water..

Amende :: Amende (n.) A pecuniary punishment or fine; a reparation or recantation.

Pardon :: Pardon (v. t.) To absolve from the consequences of a fault or the punishment of crime; to free from penalty; -- applied to the offender.

Infliction :: Infliction (n.) That which is inflicted or imposed, as punishment, disgrace, calamity, etc..

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

Pain :: Pain (n.) Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty..

Tantalism :: Tantalism (n.) A punishment like that of Tantalus; a teasing or tormenting by the hope or near approach of good which is not attainable; tantalization.

Ransom :: Ransom (n.) To redeem from captivity, servitude, punishment, or forfeit, by paying a price; to buy out of servitude or penalty; to rescue; to deliver; as, to ransom prisoners from an enemy..

Infliction :: Infliction (n.) The act of inflicting or imposing; as, the infliction of torment, or of punishment..

Scourger :: Scourger (n.) One who scourges or punishes; one who afflicts severely.

Mitigation :: Mitigation (n.) The act of mitigating, or the state of being mitigated; abatement or diminution of anything painful, harsh, severe, afflictive, or calamitous; as, the mitigation of pain, grief, rigor, severity, punishment, or penalty..

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

Avenge :: Avenge (v. t.) To take vengeance for; to exact satisfaction for by punishing the injuring party; to vindicate by inflicting pain or evil on a wrongdoer.

Requite :: Requite (v. t.) To repay; in a good sense, to recompense; to return (an equivalent) in good; to reward; in a bad sense, to retaliate; to return (evil) for evil; to punish..

Lick :: Lick (v. t.) To strike with repeated blows for punishment; to flog; to whip or conquer, as in a pugilistic encounter..

Imposition :: Imposition (n.) An extra exercise enjoined on students as a punishment.

Penality :: Penality (n.) The quality or state of being penal; lability to punishment.

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