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Punishment Unit Crossword Clue

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We've checked our database and believe the answer is LASH which was last seen in the New York Times crossword.
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noun

• any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids

• leather strip that forms the flexible part of a whip

• a quick blow delivered with a whip or whiplike object

verb

• beat severely with a whip or rod

• lash or flick about sharply

• strike as if by whipping

• bind with a rope, chain, or cord

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%7 Expressed as amount of energy per unit area per unit time per unit frequency
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Source #Number Answer
New York Times11 Sep 2008 Across 62
New York Times26 Sep 2000 Down 2
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