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]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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