medicine vs punishment

medicine and punishment both are nouns.

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

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

Other hypernyms of medicine include penalisation, penalization, penalty.

medicine (noun)	punishment (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
(medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease
the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques

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