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Verb trounce has 3 senses
- flog, welt, whip, lather, lash, slash, strap, trounce - beat severely with a whip or rod; "The teacher often flogged the students"; "The children were severely trounced"
--1 is one way to beat, beat up, work over
Sample sentence:
They want to trounce the prisoners
- beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish - 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"
--2 is one way to get the better of, overcome, defeat
Sample sentence:
The fighter managed to trounce his opponent
- call on the carpet, rebuke, rag, trounce, reproof, lecture, reprimand, jaw, dress down, call down, scold, chide, berate, bawl out, remonstrate, chew out, chew up, have words, lambaste, lambast - 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"
--3 is one way to knock, criticize, criticise, pick apart
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
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