- Reward (Substantives), recompense, remuneration, meed, guerdon, premium, indemnity, indemnification, compensation, reparation, requital, retribution, quittance, smart-money, hush-money, acknowledgment, amends, sop, atonement, redress, consideration, return, tribute, honorarium, prize; salvage.
- Penalty (Substantives), pain, penance.
- Instrument of punishment.
To execute, hang, behead, decapitate, decollate, electrocute, guillotine, garrotte, shoot, gibbet, picket, hang, draw and quarter; break on the wheel; crucify, impale, torture, etc.; lynch.
To be hanged, etc., to be spread-eagled.
(Phrases). To come to the gallows; to swing for it; to die in one's shoes.
(Adjectives). Punishing, etc., punitory, punitive, inflictive, castigatory.Punished, etc.
Crown, laurel, bays, cross, medal, ribbon, decoration, etc.
(Verbs). To reward, recompense, requite, recoup, remunerate, compensate, make amends, indemnify, atone, satisfy, acknowledge, acquit oneself.
(Phrase). To get for one's pains.
(Adjectives). Remunerative, compensatory, retributive, reparatory.
Fine, mulct, amercement, forfeit, forfeiture, escheat, damages, deodand, sequestration, confiscation.
(Verbs). To fine, mulct, amerce, sconce, confiscate, sequester, sequestrate.
Scourge (Substantives), rod, cane, stick, rattan, switch, ferule, birch, cudgel.
Whip, lash, strap, thong, knout, cowhide, cat, cat-o'-nine-tails, sjambok, rope's end, boot.
Pillory, stocks, whipping-post, ducking-stool, triangle, wooden, horse, treadmill.
Rack, wheel, stake, tree, block, scaffold, gallows, gibbet, axe, maiden, guillotine, electric chair, halter, bowstring.
Executioner, hangman, headsman, Jack Ketch.