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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



... jocund greeting, sat down on the kitchen floor in a path of sunlight, and leaned against the wall, smoking. "Go right on—go right on," he urged. "Like to see you trouncing the cream. And what I've got to ...
— The Biography of a Prairie Girl • Eleanor Gates
... and gyrating about the object of his affection. It must give him a shock to see how often she proves temporarily or hypocritically indifferent to the demonstrative proceedings. Indeed they may terminate in a thorough trouncing of the male on the part of the lady of his affections. Now this preference for color over song must have evidently evolved in connection with the development of social habits in the English sparrows. His cousins of the fields, our native sparrows, are much less social, much less ...
— The Meaning of Evolution • Samuel Christian Schmucker
... than with most fights, I believe, sir, this is a purely personal one. Mr. Holmes, therefore, is prepared, sir, to give personal satisfaction. While the odds are very distinctly against him, he wishes to show that he can take his trouncing like a cadet and a gentleman. So, sir, with renewed assurances of our thanks and appreciation, Mr. Holmes is ready to meet Mr. ...
— Dick Prescott's First Year at West Point • H. Irving Hancock
... chuckled fatly. "I have been bullied so many times by grey-faced drabs that I would take my trouncing patiently from such a pair of lips. It was meat and drink to look ...
— If I Were King • Justin Huntly McCarthy
... this, and did not try to prevent it. But leaving Jan to settle with Snip, he descended upon Bill with his whip, double-thonged, and administered as sound a trouncing to that hardy warrior as any member of the team had ever received. That ended, Jean swung on his heel and gave Snip the butt of the whip-handle across the top of his nose, and this so shrewdly that Snip's muzzle ached for twenty-four ...
— Jan - A Dog and a Romance • A. J. Dawson


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