corporal punishment

/ˌkɔrpərəl ˌpʌnɪʃmənt/

Other forms: corporal punishments

Definitions of corporal punishment

1. noun

   the infliction of physical injury on someone convicted of committing a crime
   types:

   beating, drubbing, lacing, licking, thrashing, trouncing, whacking

   the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows

   electric shock

   the use of electricity to administer punishment or torture

   capital punishment, death penalty, executing, execution

   putting a condemned person to death

   gantlet, gauntlet

   a form of punishment in which a person is forced to run between two lines of men facing each other and armed with clubs or whips to beat the victim

   kick in the butt

   punishment inflicted by kicking the victim in the behind

   lapidation, stoning

   the act of pelting with stones; punishment inflicted by throwing stones at the victim (even unto death)

   flagellation, flogging, lashing, tanning, whipping

   beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment

   flagellation

   beating as a source of erotic or religious stimulation

   burning, burning at the stake

   execution by fire

   hanging

   a form of capital punishment; victim is suspended by the neck from a gallows or gibbet until dead

   burning, electrocution

   execution by electricity

   beheading, decapitation

   execution by cutting off the victim's head

   crucifixion

   the act of executing by a method widespread in the ancient world; the victim's hands and feet are bound or nailed to a cross

   type of:

   penalisation, penalization, penalty, punishment, sanction

   the act of punishing