Term: aversion therapy: any technique of behavior modification that uses unpleasant stimuli in a controlled fashion to alter behavior in a therapeutic way; primarily used for alcoholism or drug abuse (but with little success)
Candidate hypernym: behavior therapy: psychotherapy that seeks to extinguish or inhibit abnormal or maladaptive behavior by reinforcing desired behavior and extinguishing undesired behavior → 1
Candidate hypernym: chaparral pea: spiny evergreen xerophytic shrub having showy rose and purple flowers and forming dense thickets; of dry rocky mountain slopes of California → 0
Candidate hypernym: bindweed: any of several vines of the genera Convolvulus and Calystegia having a twining habit → 0
Candidate hypernym: uvularia: genus of perennial rhizomatous herb of southern and southeastern United States → 0
Candidate hypernym: counterexample: refutation by example → 0
Candidate hypernym: workstation: a desktop digital computer that is conventionally considered to be more powerful than a microcomputer → 0
Candidate hypernym: upgrade: hardware that provides better performance than an earlier version did → 0
Candidate hypernym: bench: the magistrate or judge or judges sitting in court in judicial capacity to compose the court collectively → 0
Candidate hypernym: musk: an odorous glandular secretion from the male musk deer; used as a perfume fixative → 0
Candidate hypernym: hand-schuller-christian disease: inflammatory histiocytosis associated with disturbance of cholesterol metabolism; occurs chiefly in young children and is characterized by cystic defects of the skull and diabetes insipidus → 0
Candidate hypernym: ripper: a murderer who slashes the victims with a knife → 0