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Noun penalization has 1 sense
  1. punishment, penalty, penalization, penalisation - the act of punishing
    --1 is a kind of social control
    --1 has particulars:
     castigation, chastisement; corporal punishment; cruel and unusual punishment; detention; discipline, correction; economic strangulation; imprisonment; music, medicine; self-punishment; stick; penance, self-mortification, self-abasement
    Derived form: verb penalize1
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