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Any pain, suffering, or loss inflicted on a person because of a crime or offense.

A penalty inflicted by a court of justice on a convicted offender as a just retribution, and incidentally for the purposes of reformation and prevention.

The application of an unpleasant stimulus or penalty for the purpose of eliminating or correcting undesirable behavior.

Pain, loss, or penalty, inflicted for a crime or fault; colloquially, rough treatment.

Penalty inflicted for offence.

Penalty; also, the act of punishing.

Pain or suffering inflicted by authority on a person for crime.

The infliction of suffering for a crime or fault; the suffering inflicted.

n. Act of punishing ; chastisement ; correction ;- pain, sufferings inflicted with a view to reform the offender, or deter others from offence or crime. Capital punishment, death.