I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.
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Punishment
//ˈpʌnɪʃmənt//
Synonyms for "punishment" (96 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (20)
Strong matches (28)
Related words (48)
Related word relations
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More general
3 entriesMore specific
3 entriesAntonyms
5 entriesSynonyms
4 entriesRelated terms
7 entriesat location
1 entriesderived
17 entriesShowing 16 of 17 words.
derived from
1 entriesdistinct from
1 entriesetymologically related_to
2 entriesis a
7 entriesmeronym
2 entriesreceives action
1 entriesrelated to
189 entriesShowing 16 of 189 words.
Translations
250 translations across 95 languages.
Afrikaans
2 entries- straf noun (act of punishing)
- straf noun (penalty for wrongdoing)
Albanian
2 entries- dënim noun (act of punishing)
- ndëshkim noun (act of punishing)
Ancient Greek
3 entries- κόλασις noun (penalty for wrongdoing)
- τιμωρία noun (act of punishing)
- τιμωρία noun (penalty for wrongdoing)
Arabic
4 entries- جَزَاء noun (act of punishing)
- عُقُوبَة noun (penalty for wrongdoing)
- عِقَاب noun (act of punishing)
- عِقَاب noun (suffering imposed as retribution)
Armenian
4 entries- պատժում noun (act of punishing)
- պատիժ noun (act of punishing)
- պատիժ noun (penalty for wrongdoing)
- պատիժ noun (harsh treatment or experience)
Asturian
2 entries- castigu noun (act of punishing)
- castigu noun (penalty for wrongdoing)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- cəza noun (act of punishing)
Bashkir
1 entries- яза noun (act of punishing)
Belarusian
4 entries- ка́ра noun (act of punishing)
- ка́ра noun (penalty for wrongdoing)
- пакара́нне noun (act of punishing)
- пакара́нне noun (penalty for wrongdoing)
Bengali
2 entries- দণ্ড noun (act of punishing)
- সাজা noun (act of punishing)
Bulgarian
2 entries- наказа́ние noun (act of punishing)
- наказа́ние noun (penalty for wrongdoing)
Burmese
2 entries- ဒဏ် noun (act of punishing)
- အပြစ် noun (act of punishing)
Catalan
4 entries- càstig noun (penalty for wrongdoing)
- punició noun (act of punishing)
- punició noun (suffering imposed as retribution)
- punició noun (harsh treatment or experience)
Cebuano
1 entries- kastigo noun (act of punishing)
Cherokee
2 entries- ᎤᏓᏍᏛᏗᏍᏗ noun (act of punishing)
- ᎤᏓᏍᏛᏗᏍᏗ noun (penalty for wrongdoing)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 刑罰 /刑罚 noun (act of punishing)
- 刑罰 /刑罚 noun (penalty for wrongdoing)
- 懲罰 /惩罚 noun (act of punishing)
Cornish
1 entries- kessydhyans noun (act of punishing)
Czech
2 entries- trest noun (act of punishing)
- trest noun (penalty for wrongdoing)
Danish
3 entries- afstraffelse noun (harsh treatment or experience)
- straf noun (act of punishing)
- straf noun (penalty for wrongdoing)
Dutch
4 entries- afstraffing noun (suffering imposed as retribution)
- afstraffing noun (harsh treatment or experience)
- beproeving noun (harsh treatment or experience)
- bestraffing noun (act of punishing)
Esperanto
2 entries- puno noun (act of punishing)
- puno noun (penalty for wrongdoing)
Estonian
1 entries- karistus noun (act of punishing)
Faroese
1 entries- revsing noun (act of punishing)
Finnish
4 entries- kurittaminen noun (harsh treatment or experience)
- rangaistus noun (penalty for wrongdoing)
- rangaistus noun (suffering imposed as retribution)
- rankaiseminen noun (act of punishing)
French
4 entries- châtiment noun (act of punishing)
- châtiment noun (suffering imposed as retribution)
- punition noun (act of punishing)
- punition noun (penalty for wrongdoing)
Galician
3 entries- castigo noun (act of punishing)
- castigo noun (penalty for wrongdoing)
- punición noun (act of punishing)
Georgian
2 entries- დასჯა noun (act of punishing)
- სასჯელი noun (penalty for wrongdoing)
German
3 entries- Bestrafung noun (act of punishing)
- Bestrafung noun (penalty for wrongdoing)
- Strafe noun (act of punishing)
Gothic
1 entries- 𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌰𐌱𐌴𐌹𐍄 noun (act of punishing)
Greek
3 entries- ποινή noun (penalty for wrongdoing)
- τιμωρία noun (act of punishing)
- τιμωρία noun (penalty for wrongdoing)
Hebrew
3 entries- עֲנִישָׁה noun (act of punishing)
- עונש noun (penalty for wrongdoing)
- עונש \ עֹנֶשׁ noun (act of punishing)
Hindi
4 entries- दण्ड noun (act of punishing)
- दण्ड noun (penalty for wrongdoing)
- सज़ा noun (act of punishing)
- सज़ा noun (penalty for wrongdoing)
Hungarian
2 entries- büntetés noun (act of punishing)
- büntetés noun (penalty for wrongdoing)
Icelandic
1 entries- refsing noun (act of punishing)
Indonesian
1 entries- hukuman noun (act of punishing)
Ingrian
1 entries- rangaissos noun (penalty for wrongdoing)
Iranian Persian
4 entries- تاوان noun (penalty for wrongdoing)
- تَنْبیه noun (act of punishing)
- جَزا noun (act of punishing)
- جَزا noun (penalty for wrongdoing)
Irish
1 entries- pionós noun (penalty for wrongdoing)
Italian
3 entries- castigo noun (act of punishing)
- pena noun (act of punishing)
- punizione noun (act of punishing)
Japanese
4 entries- 処罰 noun (act of punishing)
- 処罰 noun (penalty for wrongdoing)
- 刑罰 noun (act of punishing)
- 刑罰 noun (penalty for wrongdoing)
Kazakh
1 entries- жаза noun (act of punishing)
Khmer
3 entries- ទណ្ឌ noun (act of punishing)
- ទណ្ឌកម្ម noun (act of punishing)
- ទណ្ឌកិច្ច noun (act of punishing)
Kikuyu
1 entries- ihera noun (penalty for wrongdoing)
Korean
4 entries- 벌 noun (act of punishing)
- 징벌 noun (act of punishing)
- 처벌 noun (act of punishing)
- 형벌 noun (act of punishing)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- жаза noun (act of punishing)
Lao
2 entries- ທັນ noun (act of punishing)
- ໂທດ noun (act of punishing)
Latin
3 entries- poena noun (act of punishing)
- pūnītiō noun (penalty for wrongdoing)
- supplicium noun (act of punishing)
Latvian
3 entries- sods noun (act of punishing)
- sods noun (penalty for wrongdoing)
- sodīšana noun (act of punishing)
Lithuanian
1 entries- bausmė noun (act of punishing)
Luxembourgish
3 entries- Bestrofung noun (penalty for wrongdoing)
- Strof noun (act of punishing)
- Strof noun (penalty for wrongdoing)
Macedonian
4 entries- казна noun (act of punishing)
- казна noun (penalty for wrongdoing)
- казна noun (suffering imposed as retribution)
- казнување noun (act of punishing)
Malay
4 entries- azab noun (penalty for wrongdoing)
- azab noun (suffering imposed as retribution)
- dera noun (act of punishing)
- hukuman noun (act of punishing)
Malayalam
3 entries- ശിക്ഷ noun (act of punishing)
- ശിക്ഷ noun (penalty for wrongdoing)
- ശിക്ഷ noun (suffering imposed as retribution)
Mongolian
1 entries- шийтгэл noun (act of punishing)
Ngazidja Comorian
1 entries- âdhaɓu noun (suffering imposed as retribution)
Norman
4 entries- peunnition noun (act of punishing)
- peunnition noun (penalty for wrongdoing)
- peunnition noun (suffering imposed as retribution)
- peunnition noun (harsh treatment or experience)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- ceza noun (act of punishing)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- straff noun (act of punishing)
- straff noun (penalty for wrongdoing)
Occitan
1 entries- puniment noun (act of punishing)
Old Armenian
4 entries- պատիժ noun (act of punishing)
- պատիժ noun (penalty for wrongdoing)
- պատուհաս noun (act of punishing)
- պատուհաս noun (penalty for wrongdoing)
Old English
2 entries- wīte noun (act of punishing)
- wīte noun (penalty for wrongdoing)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- جزا noun (act of punishing)
- جزا noun (penalty for wrongdoing)
Pannonian Rusyn
1 entries- кара noun (act of punishing)
Pashto
3 entries- ايداد noun (act of punishing)
- جزاء noun (act of punishing)
- مجازات noun (act of punishing)
Persian
4 entries- بلا noun (harsh treatment or experience)
- تنبیه noun (suffering imposed as retribution)
- مجازات noun (suffering imposed as retribution)
- کیفر noun (suffering imposed as retribution)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Strof noun (penalty for wrongdoing)
Polish
4 entries- kara noun (act of punishing)
- kara noun (penalty for wrongdoing)
- karanie noun (act of punishing)
- kaźń noun (penalty for wrongdoing)
Portuguese
4 entries- castigo noun (penalty for wrongdoing)
- pena noun (penalty for wrongdoing)
- punição noun (act of punishing)
- punição noun (penalty for wrongdoing)
Punjabi
1 entries- ਡੰਡ noun (penalty for wrongdoing)
Quechua
1 entries- wanay noun (act of punishing)
Romanian
4 entries- pedeapsă noun (act of punishing)
- pedeapsă noun (penalty for wrongdoing)
- pedeapsă noun (suffering imposed as retribution)
- pedepsire noun (act of punishing)
Russian
3 entries- ка́ра noun (act of punishing)
- наказа́ние noun (act of punishing)
- наказа́ние noun (penalty for wrongdoing)
Sanskrit
3 entries- दण्ड noun (act of punishing)
- दम noun (act of punishing)
- निग्रह noun (act of punishing)
Scottish Gaelic
3 entries- peanas noun (penalty for wrongdoing)
- peanas noun (suffering imposed as retribution)
- peanasachadh noun (act of punishing)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- kȁzna noun (act of punishing)
- kȁzna noun (penalty for wrongdoing)
- ка̏зна noun (act of punishing)
- ка̏зна noun (penalty for wrongdoing)
Sikkimese
1 entries- ཀྱོམ noun (penalty for wrongdoing)
Slovak
2 entries- trest noun (act of punishing)
- trest noun (penalty for wrongdoing)
Slovene
2 entries- kazen noun (act of punishing)
- kazen noun (penalty for wrongdoing)
Spanish
4 entries- castigo noun (act of punishing)
- castigo noun (penalty for wrongdoing)
- escarmiento noun (act of punishing)
- escarmiento noun (penalty for wrongdoing)
Swedish
2 entries- straff noun (act of punishing)
- straff noun (penalty for wrongdoing)
Tagalog
1 entries- kastigo noun (act of punishing)
Tajik
3 entries- муҷозот noun (act of punishing)
- сазо noun (act of punishing)
- ҷазо noun (act of punishing)
Tamil
2 entries- தண்டனம் noun (act of punishing)
- தண்டம் noun (act of punishing)
Tatar
1 entries- җәза noun (act of punishing)
Thai
2 entries- ทัณฑ์ noun (act of punishing)
- โทษ noun (act of punishing)
Turkish
1 entries- ceza noun (act of punishing)
Turkmen
1 entries- jeza noun (act of punishing)
Ukrainian
4 entries- ка́ра noun (act of punishing)
- ка́ра noun (penalty for wrongdoing)
- покара́ння noun (act of punishing)
- покара́ння noun (penalty for wrongdoing)
Urdu
2 entries- دَنْڈ noun (act of punishing)
- سَزا noun (act of punishing)
Uyghur
1 entries- جازا noun (act of punishing)
Uzbek
1 entries- jazo noun (act of punishing)
Vietnamese
3 entries- hình phạt noun (act of punishing)
- sự phạt noun (act of punishing)
- trừng trị noun (act of punishing)
Welsh
1 entries- cosb noun (penalty for wrongdoing)
Yiddish
1 entries- שטראָף noun (act of punishing)
Zazaki
1 entries- ceza (diq) noun (act of punishing)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
An overwhelming majority voted to abolish the brutal punishment.
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The child who was caught stealing apples bravely faced the music in accepting his punishment.
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Isn't that the most humane punishment for criminals?
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.