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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
punitive
    adj 1: inflicting punishment; "punitive justice"; "punitive
           damages" [syn: punitive, punitory] [ant:
           rehabilitative]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Punitive \Pu"ni*tive\, a.
   Of or pertaining to punishment; involving, awarding, or
   inflicting punishment; as, punitive law or justice.
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         If death be punitive, so, likewise, is the necessity
         imposed upon man of toiling for his subsistence. -- I.
                                                  Taylor.
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         We shall dread a blow from the punitive hand.
                                                  --Bagehot.
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Thesaurus Results for punitive:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
avenging, castigating, castigatory, chastening, chastising, compensatory, correctional, corrective, disciplinary, grudgeful, grueling, implacable, inflictive, irreconcilable, penal, penological, punishing, punitory, rancorous, reciprocal, recompensing, recompensive, reparative, restitutive, retaliative, retaliatory, retributive, retributory, revanchist, revengeful, unappeasable, vengeful, vindicatory, vindictive
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