Chastening
101retribution — Synonyms and related words: affliction, amends, atonement, avengement, avenging, blood money, castigation, chastening, chastisement, comeuppance, compensation, condign punishment, consideration, correction, counterblow, damages, desert, deserts,… …
102retributive — Synonyms and related words: castigatory, chastening, chastising, compensating, compensative, compensatory, corrective, disciplinary, grueling, indemnificatory, inflictive, lucrative, moneymaking, paying, penal, penological, profitable, punishing …
103scourge — Synonyms and related words: adversity, afflict, affliction, ambulatory plague, bane, baste, bastinado, beat, belabor, belt, birch, black death, black plague, blacksnake, blister, bubonic plague, buffet, bugbear, bullwhack, bullwhip, burden,… …
104shameful — Synonyms and related words: aberrant, abnormal, abominable, arrant, ashamed, atrocious, awful, bad, base, beastly, beneath contempt, beneath one, black, blamable, blameworthy, brutal, chastening, cheap, conscience smitten, conscience stricken,… …
105softening — Synonyms and related words: abatement, abating, allaying, allayment, alleviating, alleviation, alleviative, allowance, altering, analgesia, analgesic, anesthesia, anesthetic, anesthetizing, anodyne, appeasement, assuagement, assuaging, assuasive …
106subduing — Synonyms and related words: Cadmean victory, KO, Pyrrhic victory, Waterloo, abating, allaying, alleviating, alleviative, analgesic, anesthetic, anodyne, ascendancy, assuaging, assuasive, balmy, balsamic, beating, benumbing, blunting, cathartic,… …
107tempering — Synonyms and related words: abatement, abating, ability, aging, allaying, allayment, alleviating, alleviation, arteriosclerosis, assuagement, assuaging, atherosclerosis, background, blaseness, blunting, calcification, callusing, calming,… …
108what for — Synonyms and related words: ass reaming, bawling out, castigation, chastening, chastisement, chewing, condign punishment, correction, cussing out, deserts, disciplinary measures, discipline, dressing, dressing down, excuse, explanation, ferule,… …
109clǽnsung — clǽnsung1 f ( e/ a) cleansing, purifying, chastening, castigation, expiation; purity, chastity …
110geclǽnsung — f ( e/ a) cleansing, purifying, chastening, castigation, expiation; purity, chastity …
