trounce

Verb
  1. Beat severely with a whip or rod (synset 201413739)
    "The teacher often flogged the students"; "The children were severely trounced"
  2. Come out better in a competition, race, or conflict (synset 201104324)
    "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game"
  3. Censure severely or angrily (synset 200826456)
    "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"

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