Punishing by causing pain
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
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- birch
- cane
- caning
- cat-o'-nine-tails
- corporal punishment
- flagellate
- flagellation
- flay
- flog
- flogging
- hard labour
- hiding
- horsewhip
- kneecap
- lash
- lynch
- lynch law
- lynching
- mortification
- mortification of the fleshidiom
- non-lethal
- paddle
- rack
- scourge
- screw
- six
- six of the bestidiom
- smack
- spank
- spanking
- stock
- stone
- tar
- tar and feathersomeoneidiom
- thrash
- thrashing
- thumbscrew
- treadmill
- walloping
- waterboard
- waterboarding
- whip
- whipping
- whup