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Definition of trouncing : of Trounce

Synonyms:

lump, whipstitch, shellacking, massacre, butchery, tanning, plastering, mass murder, lace, flogging, slaughter, drubbing, trimming, whacking, defeat, licking, overthrow, loss, whipstitching, walloping, lacing, flagellation, carnage, rout

battering, invading, hitting, lunging, hammering, scathing, fighting, pounding, lashing, rioting, slashing, combating, thrusting, scarifying, assailing, raping, bombarding, violating, savaging, charging, barraging, assaulting, scorching, storming, raiding, striking, flaying, attacking, harrying

downfall, collapse, thrashing, fiasco, noncompletion, flop, debacle, miscarriage, failure, bust, waterloo

defeating, winning, beating, conquering, trumping, overcoming, overturning, humbling, subjecting, outdoing, surmounting, crushing, overpowering, foiling, capturing, predominating, overthrowing, routing, subduing, triumphing, quelling, mastering, vanquishing, checkmating, outplaying, whipping

Usage examples:

• His whole being was bent on getting hold of the young traitor and trouncing him within an inch of his life. - "The Girl Aviators' Sky Cruise", Margaret Burnham.
• What's this I hear of your joining the burghers and barristers, and trouncing poor Mr. Fairbrother and his flock, and crying 'Liberty forever! - "Richard Carvel, Complete", Winston Churchill Last Updated: March 5, 2009.
• I gave you every opportunity to stand up and take a trouncing, but I need hardly say that after this contemptible knavery I refuse to soil my hands on you! - "The Siege of the Seven Suitors", Meredith Nicholson.