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Definition of trouncing

the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows
a sound defeat

Similar Words: beating, thrashing, licking, drubbing, lacing, whacking, walloping, debacle, slaughter, whipping

Hyponyms: whipping, tanning, flogging, lashing, flagellation

Derivational Morphology: whack, wham, whop, wallop, flog, welt, whip, lather, lash, slash, strap, trounce, thrash, thresh, lam, flail, beat, beat up, work over, worst, pip, mop up, rack up, beat out, crush, shell, vanquish, bat, clobber, drub, lick

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