4.7.7 Punish

Use this domain for words related to punishing someone.

OMC Codes: 
681 Sanctions
Louw Nida Codes: 
38 Punish, Reward
38A Punish
  • What words refer to punishing someone?
    punish, discipline, penalty, consequence, punishment, sentence,
  • What things are used to punish someone?
    stocks, pillory,
  • What words refer to punishing someone by beating them?
    flog, beat, lash, scourge, whip,
  • What things are used to punish someone by beating them?
    belt, cane, lash, paddle, rod, stick, strap, switch, whip
  • What words refer to torturing someone?
    torture,
  • What things are used to torture someone?
    rack, screw, thumbscrew,

    • 4.7.7.1 Reward

    Use this domain for words related to rewarding someone.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    38B Reward, Recompense
  • What words refer to rewarding someone?
    reward, recompense

    • 4.7.7.2 Fine

    Use this domain for words referring to a fine--a payment (usually of money) made to a victim or the government for a crime committed against them.

  • What words refer to fining someone?
    fine, fine (n), financial penalty, citation, ticket, cite, confiscate

    • 4.7.7.3 Imprison

    Use this domain for words related to imprisoning someone.

    OMC Codes: 
    697 Prisons and Jails
    Louw Nida Codes: 
    37H Imprison
    37I Guard, Watch Over
  • What words refer to the action of putting a person in prison?
    put in prison, imprison, to jail, incarcerate, lock up, confine, put in irons, send to prison, commit, put away, captivity,
  • What is a person called who is imprisoned?
    prisoner, jailbird, captive, felon, convict, inmate, prisoner of war
  • Where are people imprisoned?
    prison, brig, can, concentration camp, correctional institution, death camp, dungeon, house of correction, jail, jailhouse, county jail, joint, pen, penal colony, penitentiary, federal penitentiary, pound, reformatory, slammer, stockade,
  • What are the parts of a prison?
    cell, cellblock, bars, stocks, death row, solitary confinement, cooler,
  • Who are the staff of a prison?
    prison warden, prison guard, jailer, keeper, turnkey, warder
  • What words refer to the action of restraining a prisoner?
    restrain, control, to handcuff, tie up, put in chains, to bind, put in the stocks, to gag
  • What means are used to restrain prisoners?
    restraints, handcuffs, chains, bonds, stocks, gag
  • What words are used of escaping from prison?
    escape, break out of jail, jailbreak, escapee, escaped prisoner, be on the run
  • What words refer to the process of serving a sentence?
    serve your sentence
  • What words refer to the process of completing a sentence?
    complete your sentence, serve out the sentence, fulfill your sentence
  • What words refer to the action of releasing a person from prison?
    release, let go, let out of prison, set free

    • 4.7.7.4 Execute

    Use this domain for words related to executing someone for a crime.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    6F Instruments Used in Punishment and Execution
  • What words refer to executing someone for a crime?
    execute, behead, hang, crucify, burn at the stake, impale, execution,
  • What words refer to someone who executes a criminal?
    executioner, firing squad, hangman,
  • What things are used to execute someone?
    gas chamber, electric chair, gallows, gibbet, guillotine, lethal injection, noose, scaffold, cross, stake, sword,

    • 4.7.7.5 Ostracize

    Use this domain for words referring to ostracizing someone--excluding someone from society as punishment for some wrong.

  • What words refer to ostracizing someone?
    ostracize, exile, marginalize, shun, cast out, exclude
  • What words refer to a person who has been ostracized?
    outcast, pariah

    • 4.7.7.6 Pardon, release

    Use this domain for words related to pardoning someone who has been found guilty of a crime.

  • What words are used of not punishing someone who has been found guilty?
    pardon, grant a pardon, have mercy on, release, commute sentence, reduce sentence, let out, let off

    • 4.7.7.7 Atone, restitution

    Use this domain for words referring to atoning for a past sin--doing something to make up for something bad you did, or giving something to pay for something bad you did.

  • What words refer to atoning for a sin?
    atone, expiate, make up for, make amends, compensate, repay, pay for, pay your debt to society,
  • What words refer to something a person does to atone for a sin?
    penance, amends,
  • What words refer to something a person gives to atone for a sin?
    restitution, compensation, damages, reparations, indemnity,
  • What words refer to the act of atoning for a sin?
    atonement, expiation, reparation, redress,