[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

trounce \trounce\, v. t. imp.  p. p. trounced; p. pr.  vb.
   n. trouncing. f. tronce, tronche, a stump, piece of wood.
   see truncheon.
   to punish or beat severely; to whip smartly; to flog; to
   castigate. colloq.
   1913 webster
see also:
trounced trouncing truncheon 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

trouncing
     n 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
see also:
thrashing walloping debacle drubbing slaughter whipping 
beating licking lacing whacking 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

62 moby thesaurus words for "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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