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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



... decently to papa; I've wondered over and over again in the last few days that he didn't take you in hand in a way to convince you that he wasn't to be trifled with. It's my opinion that if you'd been a boy you'd have got a trouncing long before this." ...
— Elsie at Nantucket • Martha Finley
... fueled with harder wood than abstractions. The people can not be collected and incited to take sides by the spectacle of a man fighting something that does not fight back. It is men that Dr. Parkhurst is trouncing—not their crimes—not Crime. He may fancy himself "dowered with the hate of hate, the scorn of scorn," but in reality he does not hate hate but hates the hateful, and scorns, not scorn, but ...
— The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays - 1909 • Ambrose Bierce
... help deceive Miss Dorothy! How my fingers tingled to box his ears! I longed to stamp my foot and cry out: 'You handsome villain—engaged to marry one young girl and making love to another! Oh! for shame! for shame!' It's a pity that Miss Dorothy hasn't a good big brother to give him the trouncing he so richly deserves. The Lord knows it's an unhappy life Miss Dorothy will lead with him, and it would be a blessing in disguise if something should happen to prevent the marriage from taking place. As for that sly, black minx, Iris Vincent, she must have a soul as hard ...
— Pretty Madcap Dorothy - How She Won a Lover • Laura Jean Libbey
... to give you a good trouncing," said the hero. He did not hesitate, although the enemy was far beneath him socially. He remembered that his father once thrashed a cabman, and the papers gave it two columns, first page. And the Toadies' Magazine had a special article on Upper Cuts by the Upper Classes, and ran new pictures ...
— Whirligigs • O. Henry
... 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


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