Synonyms of the word

pillory

• n. A framework on a post, with holes for the hands and head, used as a means of punishment and humiliation.
• v. (transitive) To put in a pillory.
• v. (transitive) To subject to humiliation, scorn, ridicule or abuse.
• v. (transitive) To criticize harshly.

criticise

• v. To evaluate (something), and judge its merits and faults.
• v. To find fault (with something).

criticize

• v. To find fault (with something).
• v. To evaluate (something), assessing its merits and faults.

crucify

• v. To execute (a person) by nailing to a cross.
• v. To punish or otherwise express extreme anger at, especially as a scapegoat or target of outrage.
• v. (informal) To thoroughly beat at a sport or game.

display

• n. A show or spectacle.
• n. (computing) An electronic screen that shows graphics or text.
• n. (computing) The presentation of information for visual or tactile reception.
• v. (obsolete) To spread out, to unfurl.
• v. (transitive) To show conspicuously; to exhibit; to demonstrate; to manifest.
• v. (intransitive) To make a display; to act as one making a show or demonstration.
• v. (military) To extend the front of (a column), bringing it into line.
• v. (printing, dated) To make conspicuous by using large or prominent type.
• v. (obsolete) To discover; to descry.

exhibit

• v. (transitive) To display or show (something) for others to see, especially at an exhibition or contest.
• v. (transitive) To demonstrate.
• v. (transitive, law) To submit (a physical object) to a court as evidence.
• v. (intransitive) To put on a public display.
• v. (medicine) To administer as a remedy.
• n. An instance of exhibiting.
• n. That which is exhibited.
• n. A public showing; an exhibition.
• n. (law) An article formally introduced as evidence in a court.

expose

• v. (transitive) To reveal, uncover, make visible, bring to light, introduce to.
• v. (transitive) To subject photographic film to light thereby recording an image.
• v. (transitive) To abandon, especially an unwanted baby in the wilderness.
• v. To submit to an active (mostly dangerous) substance like an allergen, ozone, nicotine, solvent, or to…
• v. (computing, transitive) To make available to other parts of a program, or to other programs.

gibbet

• n. An upright post with a crosspiece used for execution and subsequent public display; a gallows.
• n. The projecting arm of a crane, from which the load is suspended; the jib.
• n. Human form structure made of iron bands designed to publicly display the corpse of an executed criminal.
• v. (transitive) To execute (someone), or display (a body), on a gibbet.
• v. (transitive) To expose (someone) to ridicule or scorn.

knock

• n. An abrupt rapping sound, as from an impact of a hard object against wood.
• n. An impact.
• n. (figuratively) criticism.
• n. (cricket) a batsman's innings.
• n. (automotive) Preignition, a type of abnormal combustion occurring in spark ignition engines caused by…
• n. (cycling) Synonym of hunger knock.
• v. (intransitive) To rap one's knuckles against something, especially wood.
• v. (transitive, dated) To strike for admittance; to rap upon, as a door.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, dated) To bump or impact.
• v. (colloquial) To denigrate, undervalue.
• v. (soccer) To pass, kick a ball towards another player.
• v. (slang, dated, Britain) To impress strongly or forcibly; to astonish; to move to admiration or applause.

penalise

• v. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of penalize.

penalize

• v. (transitive) To subject to a penalty, especially for the infringement of a rule or regulation.
• v. (transitive, sports) To impose a handicap on.

punish

• v. To cause to suffer for crime or misconduct, to administer disciplinary action.
• v. To cause great harm to (a punishing blow).

savage

• adj. Wild; not cultivated.
• adj. Barbaric; not civilized.
• adj. Fierce and ferocious.
• adj. Brutal, vicious, or merciless.
• adj. (Britain, slang) Unpleasant or unfair.
• n. (pejorative) An uncivilized or feral human; a barbarian.
• n. (figuratively) A defiant person.
• v. To attack or assault someone or something ferociously or without restraint.
• v. (figuratively) To criticise vehemently.
• v. (of an animal) To attack with the teeth.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To make savage.