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punishment

/ˈpʌnɪʃmənt/
noun
  1. The act or process of punishing, imposing and/or applying a sanction.

  2. A penalty to punish wrongdoing, especially for crime.

  3. A suffering by pain or loss imposed as retribution

Synonymsbeating, castigation, punition
Antonymsreward

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