punishment

punishment is a 10-letter English word with 4 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of punishing. Face value is 17 in Scrabble and 21 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

10 letters · Scrabble 17 · Words With Friends 21 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The act of punishing.
2. noun. Any pain, suffering, or loss inflicted on a person because of a crime or offense.
3. noun. 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.
4. noun. the act of punishing

   Synonyms: penalisation, penalization, penalty

Synonyms

penalisation, penalization, penalty

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in punishment:

unshipment

Common word forms

punishments

Words from these letters

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