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Trouncing

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Noun

1. debacle, drubbing, slaughter, thrashing, trouncing, walloping, whipping

a sound defeat

2. beating, drubbing, lacing, licking, thrashing, trouncing, whacking

the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Trouncing

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verb
(transitive)
to beat or defeat utterly; thrash

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Trouncing

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verb transitiveWord forms: trounced or ˈtrouncing
1. 
to beat; thrash; flog
2.  Informal
to defeat soundly

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Trouncing

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tr.v. trounced, trounc·ing, trounc·es
1. To thrash; beat: "A crew of clean-cut thugs trounced him as he stepped out of a taxi into the unlit street" (Christropher Hunt).
2. To defeat decisively: The mayor was trounced in the election.
3. To criticize severely: The play was trounced by reviewers.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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