Trounce

v. t.

1.

To punish or beat severely; to whip smartly; to flog; to castigate. [imp. & p. p. Trounced ; p. pr. & vb. n. Trouncing .]

Verb	1.	trounce - beat severely with a whip or rod; "The teacher often flogged the students"; "The children were severely trounced" Synonyms: flog, lash, welt, whip, lather, slash, strap
	2.	trounce - come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game" Synonyms: beat, beat out, vanquish, crush, shell
	3.	trounce - censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup" Synonyms: call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, bawl out, berate, rebuke, reproof, scold, reprimand, call down, lambast, lambaste, lecture, remonstrate, jaw, rag

assail, attack, baste, bastinado, bear the palm, beat, beat all hollow, beat hollow, belabor, belt, best, birch, blister, buffet, cane, castigate, clobber, club, cowhide, cudgel, cut, defeat, destroy, do in, drub, excoriate, fix, flagellate, flail, flay, fustigate, give a whipping, give the stick, hide, hors de combat, horsewhip, knout, lace, lambaste, lather, lay on, lick, outclass, outdo, outfight, outgeneral, outmaneuver, outpoint, outrun, outsail, outshine, overwhelm, pistol-whip, pommel, pummel, put, rawhide, roast, ruin, scarify, scathe, scorch, scourge, settle, shellac, skin, skin alive, slash, smite, spank, strap, stripe, swinge, take the cake, thrash, thump, trim, triumph, triumph over, truncheon, undo, walk all over, wallop, whale, whomp, whop, win, worst

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