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Transportable :: Transportable (a.) Incurring, or subject to, the punishment of transportation; as, a transportable offense..

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..

Correct :: Correct (v. t.) To bring back, or attempt to bring back, to propriety in morals; to reprove or punish for faults or deviations from moral rectitude; to chastise; to discipline; as, a child should be corrected for lying..

Appeal :: Appeal (v. t.) An accusation; a process which formerly might be instituted by one private person against another for some heinous crime demanding punishment for the particular injury suffered, rather than for the offense against the public..

Penance :: Penance (v. t.) To impose penance; to punish.

Inhuman :: Inhuman (a.) Characterized by, or attended with, cruelty; as, an inhuman act or punishment..

Stigmatic :: Stigmatic (n.) A notorious profligate or criminal who has been branded; one who bears the marks of infamy or punishment.

Torture :: Torture (v. t.) To punish with torture; to put to the rack; as, to torture an accused person..

Damned :: Damned (a.) Sentenced to punishment in a future state; condemned; consigned to perdition.

Chabuk :: Chabuk (n.) A long whip, such as is used in the East in the infliction of punishment..

Penitentiary :: Penitentiary (n.) A house of correction, in which offenders are confined for punishment, discipline, and reformation, and in which they are generally compelled to labor..

Gate :: Gate (v. t.) To punish by requiring to be within the gates at an earlier hour than usual.

Wrath :: Wrath (a.) The effects of anger or indignation; the just punishment of an offense or a crime.

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

Vicarious :: Vicarious (prep.) Performed of suffered in the place of another; substituted; as, a vicarious sacrifice; vicarious punishment..

Bastinado :: Bastinado (n.) A sound beating with a stick or cudgel. Specifically: A form of punishment among the Turks, Chinese, and others, consisting in beating an offender on the soles of his feet..

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

Shot-free :: Shot-free (a.) Free from charge or expense; hence, unpunished; scot-free..

Merit :: Merit (n.) To earn by service or performance; to have a right to claim as reward; to deserve; sometimes, to deserve in a bad sense; as, to merit punishment..

Example :: Example (n.) That which is to be avoided; one selected for punishment and to serve as a warning; a warning.

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