trouncing

1 a sound defeat [syn: thrashing, walloping, debacle, drubbing, slaughter, whipping]

2 the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows [syn: beating, thrashing, licking, drubbing, lacing, whacking]

English

Verb

trouncing

1. present participle of trounce

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