tar-and-feather vs punish

tar-and-feather and punish both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
tar-and-feather	No	No	Yes	No
punish	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, punish is a hypernym of tar-and-feather; that is, punish is a word with a broader meaning than tar-and-feather:

tar-and-feather: smear the body of (someone) with tar and feathers; done in some societies as punishment
punish: impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on

Other hypernyms of tar-and-feather include penalise, penalize.

tar-and-feather (verb)	punish (verb)
smear the body of (someone) with tar and feathers; done in some societies as punishment	impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on