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Castigation

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. Corrective punishment; chastisement; reproof; pungent criticism.

n. Emendation; correction.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. Corrective punishment; chastisement; reproof; pungent criticism.

n. Emendation; correction.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The act of castigating.

n. Critical scrutiny and emendation; correction of textual errors.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a severe scolding

n. verbal punishment

Word Usage

"Such malicious castigation, which is internalized by the abused person as true, crushes the spirit of the recipient, and they retreat from the life they were living to follow the script of their destruction -- becoming a self-imposed prophecy."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

reproof reproval reprimand rebuke reprehension

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

chastisement reproof emendation correction

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

scourging flogging drubbing infliction trounce