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Trounce
verb (past & past part. trounced; pres. part. trouncing) 2.Come out better in a competition, race, or conflict. Synonyms: beat, beat out, crush, shell, vanquish. "We beat the competition" , "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game" 3.Censure severely or angrily. Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, reproof, scold, take to task. "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister" , "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup"
WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University
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