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Passion :: Passion (n.) A suffering or enduring of imposed or inflicted pain; any suffering or distress (as, a cardiac passion); specifically, the suffering of Christ between the time of the last supper and his death, esp. in the garden upon the cross..

Vengeance :: Vengeance (n.) Punishment inflicted in return for an injury or an offense; retribution; -- often, in a bad sense, passionate or unrestrained revenge..

Discipline :: Discipline (n.) Correction; chastisement; punishment inflicted by way of correction and training.

Excruciate :: Excruciate (v. t.) To inflict agonizing pain upon; to torture; to torment greatly; to rack; as, to excruciate the heart or the body..

Torture :: Torture (n.) Especially, severe pain inflicted judicially, either as punishment for a crime, or for the purpose of extorting a confession from an accused person, as by water or fire, by the boot or thumbkin, or by the rack or wheel..

Damage :: Damage (n.) Injury or harm to person, property, or reputation; an inflicted loss of value; detriment; hurt; mischief..

Avengement :: Avengement (n.) The inflicting of retributive punishment; satisfaction taken.

Cob :: Cob (n.) A punishment consisting of blows inflicted on the buttocks with a strap or a flat piece of wood.

Menace :: Menace (n.) To threaten, as an evil to be inflicted..

Imposition :: Imposition (n.) The act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like..

Impose :: Impose (v. t.) To lay as a charge, burden, tax, duty, obligation, command, penalty, etc.; to enjoin; to levy; to inflict; as, to impose a toll or tribute..

Inflictive :: Inflictive (a.) Causing infliction; acting as an infliction.

Inflicted :: Inflicted (imp. & p. p.) of Inflic.

Reprisal :: Reprisal (n.) The act of retorting on an enemy by inflicting suffering or death on a prisoner taken from him, in retaliation for an act of inhumanity..

Scourge :: Scourge (n.) A lash; a strap or cord; especially, a lash used to inflict pain or punishment; an instrument of punishment or discipline; a whip..

Render :: Render (v. t.) To inflict, as a retribution; to requite..

Threaten :: Threaten (v. t.) To exhibit the appearance of (something evil or unpleasant) as approaching; to indicate as impending; to announce the conditional infliction of; as, to threaten war; to threaten death..

Lynch Law :: Lynch law () The act or practice by private persons of inflicting punishment for crimes or offenses, without due process of law..

Wrong :: Wrong (a.) Whatever deviates from moral rectitude; usually, an act that involves evil consequences, as one which inflicts injury on a person; any injury done to, or received from; another; a trespass; a violation of right..

Sting :: Sting (v. t.) Any sharp organ of offense and defense, especially when connected with a poison gland, and adapted to inflict a wound by piercing; as the caudal sting of a scorpion. The sting of a bee or wasp is a modified ovipositor. The caudal sting, or spine, of a sting ray is a modified dorsal fin ray. The term is sometimes applied to the fang of a serpent. See Illust. of Scorpion..

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