Trouncing can be categorized as a noun and a verb.
Verb |
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| trounce - 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" | ||
| trounce - beat severely with a whip or rod; "The teacher often flogged the students"; "The children were severely trounced" | ||
| trounce - 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" | ||
Noun |
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| trouncing - the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows | ||
| trouncing - a sound defeat |