Object

• perpetrator: Anger or the desire to punish the perpetrator can be safely directed through the art materials.

• wrongdoer: I fully accept that this remains to be proved, but the climate is much more inclined to punish wrongdoers.

• offender: The French government has recently urged the traffic police to use their full powers to punish offenders.

• spammers: They have become extremely adept at finding out duplicates and hidden texts, detecting and punishing the search engine spammers.

• sinner: In the past leprosy was said to be sent by the ancestors to punish either individual sinners or members of a sinner's family.

• sin: Others thought it was God punishing the sins of the city people.

Subject

• confinement: Opposite the Bluecoat formerly stood a Bridewell or House of Correction where " petty crimes " were punished by confinement and hard labor.

• imprisonment: This more serious version of GBH may be punished by life imprisonment.

Modifying Another Word

• harshly: Leaving during a game ( without a good excuse ) Racist comments - Racism will not be tolerated and will be punished harshly.

• severely: We bowled far too many short balls which were severely punished by quality batsmen.

• accordingly: It was decided that I was the ringleader and should be punished accordingly.

• justly: We are punished justly, for we are getting what our deeds deserve.

• retrospectively: Brian Barwick's hopes of using video evidence to retrospectively punish the divers are rejected by FIFA.

• collectively: One may ask: " What crime have all these boys and girls perpetrated to be collectively punished by U.S. and British governments?

Present participle complement

• accord: He who does harm, him I punish according to the damage.

Preposition: in

• hell: What we all deserve is to be punished in hell.

Preposition: for

• contempt: The section clearly has a close relationship to the power of a court to punish for contempt.

• offense: The minimum standard of fairness does not permit a person to be punished twice for the same offense.

Preposition: by

• confinement: Opposite the Bluecoat formerly stood a Bridewell or House of Correction where " petty crimes " were punished by confinement and hard labor.

• imprisonment: This more serious version of GBH may be punished by life imprisonment.