corporal punishment

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   the infliction of physical injury on someone convicted of committing a crime

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Questions about corporal punishment

What does corporal punishment mean?

corporal punishment means "the infliction of physical injury on someone convicted of committing a crime".

Is corporal punishment a common word?

corporal punishment is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.