medicine vs penalty

penalty vs medicine

medicine and penalty both are nouns.

medicine is a verb but penalty is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
medicine	Yes	No	Yes	No
penalty	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, penalty is a hypernym of medicine; that is, penalty is a word with a broader meaning than medicine:

medicine: punishment for one's actions
penalty: the act of punishing, or the infliction of a penalty

Other hypernyms of medicine include penalisation, penalization, punishment.

medicine (noun)	penalty (noun)
the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries	the act of punishing, or the infliction of a penalty
punishment for one's actions	the disadvantage or painful consequences of an action or condition
(medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease	(games) a handicap or disadvantage that is imposed on a competitor (or a team) for an infraction of the rules of the game
the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques	a payment required for not fulfilling a contract

medicine (verb)	penalty (verb)
treat medicinally, treat with medicine

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