Phrase Hound found 15 phrases and 9 compound words that contain punishment. The most common are listed below. Open punishment in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 15
- capital punishmentThe practice of putting a person to death as a punishment for a crime.
- corporal punishmentA form of punishment achieved by inflicting physical pain on the offender's body.
- collective punishmentA form of punishment whereby a suspected perpetrator's peers are targeted.
- mirror punishmentA form of punishment that reflects the nature of the transgression that it punishes.
- self-punishmentThe act of punishing oneself.
- glutton for punishmentOne who persists in an effort in spite of harmful or unpleasant results.
- group punishmentSynonym of collective punishment: A form of punishment whereby a suspected perpetrator's peers are targeted.
- punishment passThe act of passing a cyclist in a motor vehicle as close as possible in order to intimidate them.
- petticoat punishmentThe supposed traditional punishment (mainly encountered in BDSM fantasy scenarios) of dressing a boy in girls' clothing to shame him.
- gluttons for punishmentplural of glutton for punishment: One who persists in an effort in spite of harmful or unpleasant results.
- sucker for punishmentSynonym of glutton for punishment: One who persists in an effort in spite of harmful or unpleasant results.
- vicarious punishmentA type of social learning in which a person is dissuaded from committing a certain act, as a result of seeing others punished for the same action.
- suckers for punishmentplural of sucker for punishment: One who persists in an effort in spite of harmful or unpleasant results.
- brute for punishmentOne who endures, or who can endure, a great deal of pain, hardship, or other adversity.
- brutes for punishmentplural of brute for punishment: One who endures, or who can endure, a great deal of pain, hardship, or other adversity.
Compound words 9
- funishmentA proposed treatment of criminals that would take them out of wider society (like a traditional prison) but without aiming to punish them.
- overpunishmentExcessive punishment.
- propunishmentSupporting or favouring punishment.
- unpunishmentLack of punishment; failure to punish.
- antipunishmentOpposing punishment.
- counterpunishmentA punishment imposed in retaliation for another punishment.
- nonpunishmentAbsence of punishment; failure to punish.
- punishmentalpunitive
- prepunishmentThe act of prepunishing; punishment in advance.