Definition of trounce

• beat severely with a whip or rod; "The teacher often flogged the students"; "The children were severely trounced"
• 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"
• censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child for entering a strangers car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup"