Term: cruel and unusual punishment: punishment prohibited by the 8th amendment to the U.S. Constitution; includes torture or degradation or punishment too severe for the crime committed
Candidate hypernym: punishment: the act of punishing → 1
Candidate hypernym: peltate leaf: a shield-shaped leaf; as a nasturtium leaf → 0
Candidate hypernym: yucatec: a Mayan language spoken by the Yucatec → 0
Candidate hypernym: professional: a person engaged in one of the learned professions → 0
Candidate hypernym: bandmaster: the conductor of a band → 0
Candidate hypernym: religious person: a person who manifests devotion to a deity → 0
Candidate hypernym: bell apple: the edible yellow fruit of the Jamaica honeysuckle → 0
Candidate hypernym: coma: (botany) a usually terminal tuft of bracts (as in the pineapple) or tuft of hairs (especially on certain seeds) → 0
Candidate hypernym: colony: (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell → 0
Candidate hypernym: isolation: a country's withdrawal from international politics → 0
Candidate hypernym: streambed: a channel occupied (or formerly occupied) by a stream → 0