Synonyms and related words :
affliction, bane, bugbear, burden, calamity, castigation, chastening, chastisement, condign punishment, correction, crushing burden, curse, death, defensibility, deserts, destruction, disciplinary measures, discipline, disease, drumhead justice, dueness, equitableness, equity, evenhandedness, evil, ferule, give-and-take, grievance, harm, infliction, judgment, judicial punishment, justice, justifiability, justifiableness, justification, justness, lawfulness, legality, measure for measure, meetness, open wound, pains, pains and punishments, pay, payment, penal retribution, penalty, penology, pest, pestilence, plague, poetic justice, properness, propriety, punishment, punition, retribution, retributive justice, right, rightfulness, rightness, rude justice, running sore, scales of justice, scourge, summary justice, thorn, torment, vexation, visitation, warrantability, warrantedness, well-deserved punishment, what is right, what-for, woe