Punishment of an offender; retribution deemed appropriate for a crime; esp. capital punishment, execution. Also: †an instance of this, a punishment…

A judicial sentence; judicial punishment; spec. a sentence of peine forte et dure (see peine, n. 1). Obsolete.

Punishment. Obsolete.

The penalty of the transgression; punishment for an offence. Obsolete.

The infliction of a penalty or sanction in retribution for an offence or transgression; (also) that which is inflicted as a penalty; a sanction…

Revenge, retribution; an act or instance of this. Formerly also: †punishment (obsolete).

Punishment.

Punishment of a wrongdoer; chastisement. Also: an instance of this. Obsolete.

An instance of this; something inflicted, as pain, punishment, etc., or in weaker sense, an annoyance, a nuisance, a ‘visitation’.

Punishment, esp. physical punishment exacted in retribution for a crime. Also more generally: torture, torment, suffering.

An act of punishment. Obsolete. rare.

figurative. A public humiliation, condemnation, or punishment, esp. by a mob.

The action of punishing or reprimanding a person; punishment; an instance of this. Cf. woodshed, n. 2a woodshed, v. 3.