Trounce

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Trounce \Trounce\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Trounced}; p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Trouncing}.] [F. tronce, tronche, a stump, piece of wood.
     See {Truncheon}.]
     To punish or beat severely; to whip smartly; to flog; to
     castigate. [Colloq.]
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  trounce
       v 1: beat severely with a whip or rod; "The teacher often flogged
            the students"; "The children were severely trounced"
            [syn: {flog}, {welt}, {whip}, {lather}, {lash}, {slash},
             {strap}]
       2: 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" [syn: {beat}, {beat out}, {crush}, {shell}, {vanquish}]
       3: 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" [syn: {call on the carpet}, {rebuke},
          {rag}, {reproof}, {lecture}, {reprimand}, {jaw}, {dress
          down}, {call down}, {scold}, {chide}, {berate}, {bawl out},
           {remonstrate}, {chew out}, {chew up}, {have words}, {lambaste},
           {lambast}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  92 Moby Thesaurus words for "trounce":
     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, flog, fustigate, give a whipping, give the stick, hide,
     hors de combat, horsewhip, knout, lace, lambaste, lash, 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, switch, take the cake, thrash, thump, trim,
     triumph, triumph over, truncheon, undo, walk all over, wallop,
     whale, whip, whomp, whop, win, worst