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Make an example of

verb

Definitions

1.verbTo punish someone so as to give a warning to others.
"He made an example of the drunken sailor with twenty lashes, to show that he must have a sober crew."

Synonyms

teach someone a lessongive someone what forpunishpenalizecounterexemplifyvictimizehave someone's hidechastizecome down ongroundcastigatesend to the scaffold
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