The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word SENTENCE which also is the latest solution we found used in USA Today in 1997.
Punishment crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| SENTENCE | 25 % | 8 |
| PENANCE | 25 % | 7 |
| RAP | 25 % | 3 |
| SCOURGE | 25 % | 7 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Punishment
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- penalty
- penalization
- penalisation
- punishability
- punitive
- penal
- punished
- punish
- crackdown
- disciplinary
- penance
- retaliation
Crossword Answer definitions
SENTENCE noun- The decision or judgement of a jury or court; a verdict.
- The judicial order for a punishment to be imposed on a person convicted of a crime.
- A punishment imposed on a person convicted of a crime.
- A saying, especially from a great person; a maxim, an apophthegm.
- (grammar) A grammatically complete series of words consisting of a subject and predicate, even if one or the other is implied, and typically beginning with a capital letter and ending with a full stop.
- A formula with no free variables.
- Any of the set of strings that can be generated by a given formal grammar.
- Sense; meaning; significance.
- One's opinion; manner of thinking.
- A pronounced opinion or judgment on a given question.
- To declare a sentence on a convicted person; to doom; to condemn to punishment.
- To decree or announce as a sentence.
- To utter sententiously.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result SENTENCE
- Pronounce judgement against
- It's handed down
- Judge's pronouncement
- Time to serve
- Prison term
- It's usually measured in years
- Conviction aftermath
- Jail term
- Court punishment
- It's parsed by students
More clues leading to the result PENANCE
- Confession follow-up
- Act of contrition
- Atonement
- Sinner's punishment
- Catholic sacrament
- What a person in a hair shirt is probably doing
- Atonement for sins
- Hail Marys, often
- Catholic sacrament of confession and forgiveness
- Something to do
More clues leading to the result RAP
- Criminal charge
- Pop music style
- Snoop Doggy Dogg's music
- Certain mod music
- Gangsta __
- Hammer's genre
- Kind of sheet or session
- Knock
- Music genre
- Chat with Hammer