penalty vs medicine

medicine vs penalty

penalty and medicine both are nouns.

penalty is not a verb while medicine is a verb.

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

As nouns, medicine is a hyponym of penalty; that is, medicine is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than penalty:

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

Other hyponyms of penalty include castigation, chastisement, corporal punishment, cruel and unusual punishment, detention, correction, discipline, economic strangulation, imprisonment, music, self-punishment, stick, penance, self-abasement, self-mortification.

penalty (noun)	medicine (noun)
the act of punishing, or the infliction of a penalty	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 disadvantage or painful consequences of an action or condition	punishment for one's actions
(games) a handicap or disadvantage that is imposed on a competitor (or a team) for an infraction of the rules of the game	(medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease
a payment required for not fulfilling a contract	the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques

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

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