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adjectivesubjected to a penalty (as pain or shame or restraint or loss) for an offense or fault or in order to coerce some behavior (as a confession or obedience)
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- fury (classical mythology) the hideous snake-haired monsters (usually three in number) who pursued unpunished criminals
- scapegoat someone who is punished for the errors of others
- unpunished not punished
- prometheus (Greek mythology) the Titan who stole fire from Olympus and gave it to mankind; Zeus punished him by chaining him to a rock where an eagle gnawed at his liver until Hercules rescued him
- tartarus a place where the wicked are punished after death
- gehenna a place where the wicked are punished after death
- whipping boy someone who is punished for the errors of others
- fall of man (Judeo-Christian mythology) when Adam and Eve ate of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden, God punished them by driving them out of the Garden of Eden and into the world where they would be subject to sickness and pain and eventual death
- erinyes (classical mythology) the hideous snake-haired monsters (usually three in number) who pursued unpunished criminals
- eumenides (classical mythology) the hideous snake-haired monsters (usually three in number) who pursued unpunished criminals