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Trouncing   /trˈaʊnsɪŋ/   Listen
Trouncing

noun
1.
A sound defeat.  Synonyms: debacle, drubbing, slaughter, thrashing, walloping, whipping.
2.
The act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows.  Synonyms: beating, drubbing, lacing, licking, thrashing, whacking.



Trounce

verb
(past & past part. trounced; pres. part. trouncing)
1.
Beat severely with a whip or rod.  Synonyms: flog, lash, lather, slash, strap, welt, whip.  "The children were severely trounced"
2.
Come out better in a competition, race, or conflict.  Synonyms: beat, beat out, crush, shell, vanquish.  "We beat the competition" , "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game"
3.
Censure severely or angrily.  Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, reproof, scold, take to task.  "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister" , "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup"






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"Trouncing" Quotes from Famous Books



... family, or in the Beauchamp. A legend of a parson that had been a tutor in one of the Romfrey houses, and had talked and sung blandly to a damsel of the blood—degenerate maid—to receive a handsome trouncing for his pains, instead of the holy marriage-tie he aimed at, was the only connection of the Romfreys with the parsonry, as Everard called them. He attributed the boy's feeling to the influence of his great-aunt Beauchamp, who would, ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith



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