trouncing

trounce  (trouns)

v. trounced, trounc·ing, trounc·es

v.tr.

1. To thrash; beat.

2. To defeat decisively.

v.intr.

To censure something or someone forcefully: "I was out to trounce on every digression and indiscretion conducted (or should I say semiconducted) in this performance" (Robert Maxwell Stern).

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[Origin unknown.]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	trouncing - a sound defeat                       drubbing, thrashing, walloping, whipping, slaughter, debacle defeat, licking - an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest; "it was a narrow defeat"; "the army's only defeat"; "they suffered a convincing licking"
	2.	trouncing - the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows whacking, beating, drubbing, licking, thrashing, lacing corporal punishment - the infliction of physical injury on someone convicted of committing a crime flogging, lashing, whipping, flagellation, tanning - beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment flagellation - beating as a source of erotic or religious stimulation

Translations

trouncing

n → Prügel pl (also Sport); to give somebody a trouncing → jdm Prügel verpassen