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trouncing
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun trouncing has 2 senses
- trouncing(n = noun.event) debacle, drubbing, slaughter, thrashing, walloping, whipping - a sound defeat; Array is a kind of defeat, licking
- trouncing(n = noun.act) beating, drubbing, lacing, licking, thrashing, whacking - the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows; Array is a kind of corporal punishment
Derived form verb trounce2
has particulars: flagellation, flogging, lashing, tanning, whipping, flagellation
Derived form verb trounce1
THESAURUS
trouncing
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
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