trounce

1. Beat severely with a whip or rod (synset 201413739)
   "The teacher often flogged the students"; "The children were severely trounced"
   is a type of: beat, beat up, work over - give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression
   subtypes:

   • flagellate, scourge - whip
   • leather - whip with a leather strap
   • horsewhip - whip with a whip intended for horses
   • switch - flog with or as if with a flexible rod
   • cowhide - flog with a cowhide
   • cat - beat with a cat-o'-nine-tails
   • birch - whip with a birch twig
   same as: flog, lash, lather, slash, strap, welt, whip
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"
   entail: win - be the winner in a contest or competition; be victorious
   is a type of: defeat, get the better of, overcome - win a victory over
   subtypes:

   • outpoint, outscore - score more points than one's opponents
   • walk over - beat easily
   • eliminate - remove from a contest or race
   • mop up, pip, rack up, whip, worst - defeat thoroughly
   • whomp - beat overwhelmingly
   • get the best, have the best, overcome - overcome, usually through no fault or weakness of the person that is overcome
   • rout, spread-eagle, spreadeagle - defeat disastrously
   • get the jump - be there first
   • cheat, chicane, chouse, jockey, screw, shaft - defeat someone through trickery or deceit
   • exceed, outdo, outgo, outmatch, outperform, outstrip, surmount, surpass - be or do something to a greater degree
   • get over, master, overcome, subdue, surmount - get on top of; deal with successfully
   • best, outdo, outflank, scoop, trump - get the better of
   • outfight - to fight better than; get the better of
   • overmaster, overpower, overwhelm - overcome by superior force
   • checkmate, mate - place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game
   • immobilise, immobilize - make defenseless
   • outplay - excel or defeat in a game
   • bat, clobber, cream, drub, lick, thrash - beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight
   same as: beat, beat out, crush, shell, vanquish
   verb group: beat, circumvent, outfox, outsmart, outwit, overreach - beat through cleverness and wit
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"
   is a type of: criticise, criticize, knock, pick apart - find fault with; express criticism of; point out real or perceived flaws
   subtypes:

   • castigate, chasten, chastise, correct, objurgate - censure severely
   • brush down, tell off - reprimand
   same as: 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, scold, take to task

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