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trouncing

noun as in beating

noun as in drubbing

noun as in dusting

noun as in thrashing

noun as in threshing

noun as in whipping

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Example Sentences

A devotee, Kreeft gives Lewis the big philosophical guns, and has him trouncing Kennedy and Huxley pretty comprehensively.

Too bad it shows Republicans have learned nothing at all from their historic trouncing on Election Day.

Then he rattled off an impressive end to the season, trouncing Nadal and Djokovic.

Two years later he won the chairmanship of the council, trouncing another popular colleague.

With the midterms approaching, conventional wisdom has it the Dems will get a 1994-style trouncing.

Pea during the drive even cut jokes on the splendid trouncing administered to the grandee.

But by and by the little fellow snapped at Jim and made Jim angry, and he bounced on the coyote and gave him a good trouncing.

Marie Louise darted forward to save Victor from a ducking as well as a trouncing, and nearly ran over a man who was passing.

Indeed they may terminate in a thorough trouncing of the male on the part of the lady of his affections.

Rapid fire legs sidestep the etchings of industrious ants while silverfish are the boatmen trouncing human oars.

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On this page you'll find 363 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to trouncing, such as: defeat, drubbing, slaughter, whipping, annihilation, and bashing.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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