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Evade :: Evade (v. t.) To get away from by artifice; to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to elude; to escape from cleverly; as, to evade a blow, a pursuer, a punishment; to evade the force of an argument..

Denounce :: Denounce (v. t.) To point out as deserving of reprehension or punishment, etc.; to accuse in a threatening manner; to invoke censure upon; to stigmatize..

Spare :: Spare (a.) To preserve from danger or punishment; to forbear to punish, injure, or harm; to show mercy to..

Penitentiary :: Penitentiary (a.) Used for punishment, discipline, and reformation..

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

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

Ganch :: Ganch (n.) To drop from a high place upon sharp stakes or hooks, as the Turks dropped malefactors, by way of punishment..

Penalty :: Penalty (n.) Penal retribution; punishment for crime or offense; the suffering in person or property which is annexed by law or judicial decision to the commission of a crime, offense, or trespass..

Mulct :: Mulct (n.) A fine or penalty, esp. a pecuniary punishment or penalty..

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.

Discipline :: Discipline (n.) Self-inflicted and voluntary corporal punishment, as penance, or otherwise; specifically, a penitential scourge..

Chastisement :: Chastisement (n.) The act of chastising; pain inflicted for punishment and correction; discipline; punishment.

Annihilationist :: Annihilationist (n.) One who believes that eternal punishment consists in annihilation or extinction of being; a destructionist.

Attrite :: Attrite (a.) Repentant from fear of punishment; having attrition of grief for sin; -- opposed to contrite.

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..

Squeak :: Squeak (v. i.) To break silence or secrecy for fear of pain or punishment; to speak; to confess.

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..

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

Stock :: Stock (n.) A frame of timber, with holes in which the feet, or the feet and hands, of criminals were formerly confined by way of punishment..

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