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Sound Punishment For Murderer Crossword Clue

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noun

• (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man; Cain killed Abel out of jealousy and was exiled by God

39%4Murderer's sound punishment
noun

• a stick that people can lean on to help them walk

• a strong slender often flexible stem as of bamboos, reeds, rattans, or sugar cane

• a stiff switch, used to hit (usually students) as punishment

verb

• beat with a cane

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

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