Penalty; punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for a crime, or annexed to the commission of a crime, Uneasiness of mind; mental distress; disquietude; anxiety; solicitude; grief; sorrow, transitive verb_ To put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture, To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve, obsolete To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish