trounce
     v 1: beat severely with a whip or rod; "The teacher often flogged
          the students"; "The children were severely trounced"
          [syn: {flog}, {welt}, {whip}, {lather}, {lash}, {slash},
           {strap}]
     2: 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" [syn: {beat}, {beat out}, {crush}, {shell}, {vanquish}]
     3: 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" [syn: {call on the carpet}, {rebuke},
        {rag}, {reproof}, {lecture}, {reprimand}, {jaw}, {dress
        down}, {call down}, {scold}, {chide}, {berate}, {bawl out},
         {remonstrate}, {chew out}, {chew up}, {have words}, {lambaste},
         {lambast}]
Source: WordNet® 2.0