• n.
    ⦿punishment intended as a warning to others
    lexical concept
  • they decided to make an example of him

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechnoun
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:deterrent example
  2. enl:example
  3. enl:lesson
  4. enl:object lesson
wn:interlingual indexili:i71550

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skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:label
  • deterrent exampleobject lesson
  • deterrent exampleexamplelessonobject lesson