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chasteningadjective inflicting, involving, or serving as punishmenta chastening hour spent cleaning floors should discourage them from further pranks castigating, chastising, correcting, correctional, corrective, disciplinary, disciplining, penal, penalizing, punitive retaliative, retaliatory, retributive, retributory, revengefulvengeful, wrathful nonpunitive compensatoryacquitting, exculpating, exculpatory, exonerating, vindicatingabsolving, condoning, pardoning, remittingcommuting, reprieving to inflict a penalty on for a fault or crimechastened the child with five minutes of sitting in the corner castigating, chastising, correcting, disciplining, penalizing, punishing assessing, charging, docking, fining, imposing, levying, mulctingconvicting, sentencingcondemning, damning, denouncingcriticizing, keelhauling, rebuking, reprimanding, reprovingwreaking excusing, pardoning, sparing forfeitinggetting off, ransoming, releasingcommuting, reprievingabsolving, acquitting, exculpating, exonerating, vindicating to reduce to a lower standing in one's own eyes or in others' eyesthe unexpected loss to a second-rate player really chastened the tournament's top-seeded tennis star abasing, cheapening, debasing, degrading, demeaning, discrediting, disgracing, dishonoring, fouling, humbling, humiliating, lowering, shaming, sinking, smirching, taking down abashing, confounding, confusing, discomfiting, disconcerting, discountenancing, embarrassing, fazing, flustering, mortifying, nonplussing(also nonplusing), rattlingbelittling, castigating, criticizing, crying down, decrying, depreciating, detracting, diminishing, discounting, disparaging, minimizing, putting down, ridiculing, writing offbad-mouthing, defaming, defiling, libeling(or libelling), maligning, slanderingaffronting, insultingcensuring, condemning, damning, denouncing, execrating, reprehending, reprobating aggrandizing, canonizing, deifying, elevating, exalting acclaiming, applauding, boasting, celebrating, cheering, citing, commending, complimenting, congratulating, decorating, eulogizing, extolling, feting(or fêting), hailing, honoring, lauding, praising, saluting, toutingacknowledging, recognizinghighlighting, playing up, spotlightingdignifying, ennobling, enshrining, enskying, enthroning, glorifying, magnifyingadvancing, boosting, lifting, promoting, raising, upgrading, upliftingidealizing, romanticizing |