What is another word for "punish"?
Roget's Thesaurus (1911) lists these synonyms for "punish": assassin, bane, cankerworm, destroy, destroyer, executioner, iconoclast, idoloclast, killer, nihilist.
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- Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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