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retribution

 
Noun retribution has 3 senses
  1. retribution, requital - a justly deserved penalty
    --1 is a kind of penalty
  2. retribution - the act of correcting for your wrongdoing
    --2 is a kind of
    correction, rectification
  3. vengeance, retribution, payback - the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life; "Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord"--Romans 12:19; "For vengeance I would do nothing. This nation is too great to look for mere revenge"--James Garfield; "he swore vengeance on the man who betrayed him"; "the swiftness of divine retribution"
    --3 is a kind of retaliation, revenge
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