| punishable | | |
| adj. | 1. punishable | liable to or deserving punishment.; "punishable offenses" |
| ~ guilty | responsible for or chargeable with a reprehensible act.; "guilty of murder"; "the guilty person"; "secret guilty deeds" |
| adj. | 2. penal, punishable | subject to punishment by law.; "a penal offense" |
| ~ illegal | prohibited by law or by official or accepted rules.; "an illegal chess move" |
| conviction | | |
| n. (cognition) | 1. article of faith, conviction, strong belief | an unshakable belief in something without need for proof or evidence. |
| ~ belief | any cognitive content held as true. |
| ~ amateurism | the conviction that people should participate in sports as a hobby (for the fun of it) rather than for money. |
| n. (act) | 2. condemnation, conviction, judgment of conviction, sentence | (criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed.; "the conviction came as no surprise" |
| ~ final decision, final judgment | a judgment disposing of the case before the court; after the judgment (or an appeal from it) is rendered all that remains is to enforce the judgment. |
| ~ murder conviction | conviction for murder. |
| ~ rape conviction | conviction for rape. |
| ~ robbery conviction | conviction for robbery. |
| ~ criminal law | the body of law dealing with crimes and their punishment. |
| penalty | | |
| n. (act) | 1. penalisation, penalization, penalty, punishment | the act of punishing. |
| ~ social control | control exerted (actively or passively) by group action. |
| ~ chastisement, castigation | verbal punishment. |
| ~ corporal punishment | the infliction of physical injury on someone convicted of committing a crime. |
| ~ cruel and unusual punishment | punishment prohibited by the 8th amendment to the U.S. Constitution; includes torture or degradation or punishment too severe for the crime committed. |
| ~ detention | a punishment in which a student must stay at school after others have gone home.; "the detention of tardy pupils" |
| ~ discipline, correction | the act of punishing.; "the offenders deserved the harsh discipline they received" |
| ~ economic strangulation | punishment of a group by cutting off commercial dealings with them.; "the economic strangulation of the Jews by the Nazi Party" |
| ~ imprisonment | putting someone in prison or in jail as lawful punishment. |
| ~ medicine, music | punishment for one's actions.; "you have to face the music"; "take your medicine" |
| ~ self-punishment | punishment inflicted on yourself. |
| ~ stick | threat of a penalty.; "the policy so far is all stick and no carrot" |
| ~ self-abasement, self-mortification, penance | voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing. |
| n. (possession) | 2. penalty | a payment required for not fulfilling a contract. |
| ~ payment | a sum of money paid or a claim discharged. |
| ~ requital, retribution | a justly deserved penalty. |
| ~ forfeit, forfeiture | a penalty for a fault or mistake that involves losing or giving up something.; "the contract specified forfeits if the work was not completed on time" |
| ~ amercement, fine, mulct | money extracted as a penalty. |
| n. (attribute) | 3. penalty | the disadvantage or painful consequences of an action or condition.; "neglected his health and paid the penalty" |
| ~ disadvantage | the quality of having an inferior or less favorable position. |
| n. (attribute) | 4. penalty | (games) a handicap or disadvantage that is imposed on a competitor (or a team) for an infraction of the rules of the game. |
| ~ game | a contest with rules to determine a winner.; "you need four people to play this game" |
| ~ handicap | advantage given to a competitor to equalize chances of winning. |
| ~ game misconduct | (ice hockey) a penalty that suspends a player for the remainder of a game (but allows the team to send in a substitute for the suspended player). |
| retribution | | |
| n. (possession) | 1. requital, retribution | a justly deserved penalty. |
| ~ penalty | a payment required for not fulfilling a contract. |
| n. (act) | 2. retribution | the act of correcting for your wrongdoing. |
| ~ correction, rectification | the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake; setting right. |
| n. (act) | 3. payback, retribution, vengeance | the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life.; "Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord"; "For vengeance I would do nothing. This nation is too great to look for mere revenge"; "he swore vengeance on the man who betrayed him"; "the swiftness of divine retribution" |
| ~ retaliation, revenge | action taken in return for an injury or offense. |
| punish | | |
| v. (social) | 1. penalise, penalize, punish | impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on.; "The students were penalized for showing up late for class"; "we had to punish the dog for soiling the floor again" |
| ~ estimate, gauge, approximate, guess, judge | judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time).; "I estimate this chicken to weigh three pounds" |
| ~ avenge, retaliate, revenge | take revenge for a perceived wrong.; "He wants to avenge the murder of his brother" |
| ~ tar-and-feather | smear the body of (someone) with tar and feathers; done in some societies as punishment.; "The thief was tarred and feathered" |
| ~ execute, put to death | kill as a means of socially sanctioned punishment.; "In some states, criminals are executed" |
| ~ pillory | punish by putting in a pillory. |
| ~ castigate | inflict severe punishment on. |
| ~ amerce | punish with an arbitrary penalty. |
| ~ victimise, victimize | punish unjustly. |
| ~ scourge | punish severely; excoriate. |
| ~ discipline, sort out, correct | punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience.; "The teacher disciplined the pupils rather frequently" |
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