Dictionary Definition
trouncing
Noun
2 the act of inflicting corporal punishment with
repeated blows [syn: beating, thrashing, licking, drubbing, lacing, whacking]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Verb
trouncing- present participle of trounce
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Waterloo, bastinado, basting, battery, beating, belting, buffeting, caning, clubbing, collapse, conquering, conquest, corporal punishment,
cowhiding, crash, cudgeling, deathblow, debacle, defeasance, defeat, destruction, downfall, drubbing, failure, fall, flagellation, flailing, flogging, fustigation, hiding, horsewhipping, lacing, lambasting, lashing, lathering, licking, mastery, overcoming, overthrow, overturn, pistol-whipping,
quietus, rawhiding, rout, ruin, scourging, shellacking, smash, spanking, strapping, stripes, subdual, subduing, subjugation, swingeing, switching, thrashing, trimming, truncheoning, undoing, vanquishment, whipping