n. a payment required for not fulfilling a contract

n. (games) a handicap or disadvantage that is imposed on a competitor (or a team) for an infraction of the rules of the game

n. a penalty kick is scored when the ball is kicked into the goal from the penalty mark after a personal or a technical foul

n. the act of punishing

n. an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group

n. the state of being condemned to eternal punishment in Hell

n. a justly deserved penalty

n. an act of requiting; returning in kind

n. the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason; "it required unnatural torturing to extract a confession"

n. rope that is used for fastening something to something else; "the boats were held together by lashings"

n. the act of piercing with a sharpened stake as a form of punishment or torture

n. (criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed; "the conviction came as no surprise"

n. the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life; "Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord"--Romans 12:19; "For vengeance I would do nothing. This nation is too great to look for mere revenge"--James Garfield; "he swore vengeance on the man who betrayed him"; "the swiftness of divine retribution"

n. payment made in return for a service rendered