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Keywords: mohne, sorpe, raf, busters, eder

Operational code name for the "Dam Busters" raid by 617 squadron RAF in May 1943, on the Mohne, Eder and Sorpe dams in the Ruhr area of Germany

Keywords: censure, insensitive, remarks, him, severely

censure severely; "She chastised him for his insensitive remarks"

Keywords: obedience, purify, correct, faults, criticize

To reduce to order or obedience; to correct or purify; to free from faults or excesses.

To criticize (a person) strongly and directly in order to correct behavior.

Keywords: punitive, subject, measures

v. To subject to punitive measures.

Keywords: reformation, punish, stripes, inflict, manner

To inflict pain upon, by means of stripes, or in any other manner, for the purpose of punishment or reformation; to punish, as with stripes.