Meaning of CORPORAL PUNISHMENT
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| Definition: | | [n] the infliction of physical injury on someone convicted of committing a crime |
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| See Also: | | beating, capital punishment, death penalty, drubbing, electric shock, executing, execution, kick in the butt, lacing, lapidation, penalisation, penalization, penalty, punishment, stoning, thrashing, trouncing, whacking | |
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| Related Terms: | | bastinado, basting, battery, beating, belting, buffeting, caning, clubbing, cowhiding, cudgeling, drubbing, flagellation, flailing, flogging, fustigation, horsewhipping, lacing, lashing, pistol-whipping, rawhiding, scourging, spanking, strapping, stripes, swingeing, switching, thrashing, trouncing, truncheoning, whipping |
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