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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

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