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chastening

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of chastening

inflicting, involving, or serving as punishment

a chastening hour spent cleaning floors should discourage them from further pranks

Synonyms of chastening

castigating, chastising, correcting, correctional, corrective, disciplinary, disciplining, penal, penalizing, punitive

Words Related to chastening

retaliative, retaliatory, retributive, retributory, revengeful

vengeful, wrathful

Near Antonyms of chastening

acquitting, exculpating, exculpatory, exonerating, vindicating

absolving, condoning, pardoning, remitting

commuting, reprieving

Antonyms of chastening

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