Vocabulary for IELTS Academic (Band 5) - Punishment

a punishment given for breaking a rule, law, or legal agreement

the act of making someone suffer because they have done something illegal or wrong

an amount of money that must be paid as a legal punishment

the action of putting someone in prison

a place where criminals are put into by law as a form of punishment for their crimes

a building where people who did something illegal, such as stealing, murder, etc., are kept as a punishment

the act of punishing a criminal by death

to violently hurt a person as a punishment or as a way of obtaining information from them

to violently hit a person or animal with a whip

to put someone in prison or keep them somewhere and not let them go

to cause someone suffering for breaking the law or having done something they should not have

to make someone pay a sum of money as punishment for violation of the law