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Growing Form Of Punishment Crossword Clue

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We've checked our database and believe the answer is BIRCH which was last seen in the The Guardian Cryptic crossword.
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noun

• hard close-grained wood of any of various birch trees; used especially in furniture and interior finishes and plywood

• any betulaceous tree or shrub of the genus Betula having a thin peeling bark

• a switch consisting of a twig or a bundle of twigs from a birch tree; used to hit people as punishment

adjective satellite

• consisting of or made of wood of the birch tree

verb

• whip with a birch twig

24%8 Extreme physical pain inflicted as punishment or punishment
noun

• extreme mental distress

• unbearable physical pain

• intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain

• the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean

• 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

verb

• torment emotionally or mentally

• subject to torture

22%6Growing art form?
noun

• a dwarfed ornamental tree or shrub grown in a tray or shallow pot

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