Trouncing

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]:

  trouncing
       n 1: a sound defeat [syn: {thrashing}, {walloping}, {debacle}, {drubbing},
             {slaughter}, {whipping}]
       2: the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated
          blows [syn: {beating}, {thrashing}, {licking}, {drubbing},
           {lacing}, {whacking}]

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

  62 Moby Thesaurus words for "trouncing":
     Waterloo, bastinado, basting, battery, beating, belting, buffeting,
     caning, clubbing, collapse, conquering, conquest,
     corporal punishment, cowhiding, crash, cudgeling, deathblow,
     debacle, defeasance, defeat, destruction, downfall, drubbing,
     failure, fall, flagellation, flailing, flogging, fustigation,
     hiding, horsewhipping, lacing, lambasting, lashing, lathering,
     licking, mastery, overcoming, overthrow, overturn, pistol-whipping,
     quietus, rawhiding, rout, ruin, scourging, shellacking, smash,
     spanking, strapping, stripes, subdual, subduing, subjugation,
     swingeing, switching, thrashing, trimming, truncheoning, undoing,
     vanquishment, whipping