TROUNCE
Definition:
- [verb] beat severely with a whip or rod; "The teacher often flogged the students"; "The children were severely trounced"
Synonyms: flog, welt, whip, lather, lash, slash, strap
- [verb] 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, crush, shell, vanquish
- [verb] 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, rebuke, rag, reproof, lecture, reprimand, jaw, dress down, call down, scold, chide, berate, bawl out, remonstrate, chew out, chew up, have words, lambaste, lambast
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Related Words:
- flagellate, scourge
- horsewhip
- switch
- cowhide
- cat
- birch
- outpoint, outscore
- walk over
- eliminate
- worst, pip, mop up, whip, rack up
- whomp
- spread-eagle, spreadeagle, rout
- get the jump
- cheat, chouse, shaft, screw, chicane, jockey
- surpass, outstrip, outmatch, outgo, exceed, outdo, surmount, outperform
- outdo, outflank, trump, best, scoop
- outfight
- overpower, overmaster, overwhelm
- checkmate, mate
- immobilize, immobilise
- outplay
- bat, clobber, drub, thrash, lick
- chastise, castigate, objurgate, chasten, correct
- tell off, brush down
