punished

punished
(Roget's IV) modif.
Syn. corrected, disciplined, chastened, penalized, sentenced, trained, reproved, chastised, castigated, lectured, scolded, imprisoned, incarcerated, immured, expelled, exiled, transported, dismissed, debarred, disbenched, defrocked, whipped, spanked, trounced, flogged, birched, switched, cuffed, cracked down on*, given the deuce*, pitched into*, grounded*, licked*, given one's deserts*; see also beaten 1 , confined 3 , executed 2 .
Ant. cleared*, exonerated, released.

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