Hypertext Webster Gateway: "trounce"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.]
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
trounce
v 1: beat severely with a whip or rod; "The teacher often flogged
the students"; "The children were severely trounced"
[syn: {flog}, {welt}, {whip}, {lather}, {lash}, {slash},
{strap}]
2: 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" [syn: {beat}, {beat out}, {crush}, {vanquish}]
3: 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"; "check" is archaic [syn: {rebuke}, {rag},
{reproof}, {lecture}, {reprimand}, {jaw}, {dress down}, {scold},
{chide}, {berate}, {bawl out}, {remonstrate}, {chew out},
{chew up}, {have words}, {lambaste}, {lambast}]
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