tarred-and-feathered

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Adjective tarred-and-feathered has 1 sense

tarred-and-feathered - smeared with tar and covered with feathers as a punishment; "the poor tarred-and-feathered wretch"
Antonym: unpunished (indirect, via punished)

Verb tar-and-feather has 1 sense

tar-and-feather - smear the body of (someone) with tar and feathers; done in some societies as punishment; "The thief was tarred and feathered"
--₁ is one way to punish, penalize, penalise
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody

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