English noun: penalisation | |||
1. | penalisation (act) the act of punishing | ||
Synonyms | penalization, penalty, punishment | ||
Broader (hypernym) | social control | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | castigation, chastisement, corporal punishment, correction, cruel and unusual punishment, detention, discipline, economic strangulation, imprisonment, medicine, music, penance, self-abasement, self-mortification, self-punishment, stick | ||