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Meaning: The infliction of physical injury on someone convicted of committing a crime Classified under: Nouns denoting acts or actions Hypernyms ("corporal punishment" is a kind of...): penalisation; penalization; penalty; punishment (the act of punishing) Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "corporal punishment"): beating; drubbing; lacing; licking; thrashing; trouncing; whacking (the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows) electric shock (the use of electricity to administer punishment or torture) capital punishment; death penalty; executing; execution (putting a condemned person to death) gantlet; gauntlet (a form of punishment in which a person is forced to run between two lines of men facing each other and armed with clubs or whips to beat the victim) kick in the butt (punishment inflicted by kicking the victim in the behind) lapidation; stoning (pelting with stones; punishment inflicted by throwing stones at the victim (even unto death))  "Bread is the staff of life." (English proverb) "It is better to die standing, than to live bending." (Albanian proverb) "He fasted for a whole year and then broke his fast with an onion." (Arabic proverb) "A disaster never comes alone." (Croatian proverb) Useful links: Definition of beating Pronunciation of thrashing Definition of capital punishment Pronunciation of kick in the butt Definition of lapidation
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