n
(obsolete) A delusion; an imposture; misrepresentation; deception.
n
(law, obsolete) One who affeers.
n
(archaic) Corrective punishment; chastisement; reproof
n
(obsolete) An instrument formerly used to punish and correct arrant scolds; the ducking stool or trebucket.
adj
(archaic, poetic) Made chaste
n
The act by which somebody is chastened.
n
The act of chastising; rebuke; punishment.
v
Alternative form of chastise [To punish (someone), especially by corporal punishment.]
n
Alternative form of chastisement [The act of chastising; rebuke; punishment.]
n
(military, euphemistic) Damage to civilian property or civilian casualties that are the unintended result of military operations.
v
(transitive) To discredit or condemn (someone or something, such as a position) by attacking someone or something associated.
v
(archaic, transitive) To derange.
n
One who or that which discombobulates.
n
(obsolete) hindrance; molestation
v
Obsolete form of endanger. [(transitive) To put (someone or something) in danger; to risk causing harm to.]
v
to turn someone or something evil
n
(idiomatic) Compensation for injury caused by a person, in the form of inflicting an identical injury on that person.
adj
(obsolete) Serving to gratify; agreeable.
n
(obsolete) Guaranteed security, sanctuary, safe conduct.
v
(archaic) third-person singular present simple form of inflict
n
The act of inflicting or something inflicted; an imposition.
v
(rare, formal, transitive, intransitive) To make, or become, happy.
v
(rare) To corrupt a peace agreement or treaty to favor one side.
v
(now archaic or literary) To censure; criticize.
v
(transitive) To set in, or punish with, the pillory.
v
(intransitive) To preemptively raise ad hominem arguments in order to discredit someone.
n
Something that provokes; a provocative act
v
(transitive, figuratively) To treat harshly and unfairly.
n
One who quells; one who overpowers or subdues.
n
One who rates or scolds.
n
The instigator or perpetrator of rustication.
v
(transitive or intransitive) To criticise
v
To afflict; to chasten; to punish.
n
One who imposes a taboo.
v
(dated) To meddle (with something) in order to corrupt or pervert it.
n
Someone who terrorizes, who induces terror, a terror.
v
To practice tough love; To treat someone with compassionate but stringent discipline in order to improve their behavior.
v
(obsolete) To make a victim of; to sacrifice; to immolate.
v
(transitive, archaic) To violate, to rape.
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