trounced

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I would have said that the maids should be sent home and soundly trounced, then put to bed, with a quart bowl of sage tea apiece Giles.

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  1. transitive verb To thrash; beat.
  2. transitive verb To defeat decisively.
  3. intransitive verb 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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  • The record number would've thoroughly trounced SC's 19, embarrassed him in his own domain and broken a law (Section 182, clause 17 of the Greenwich town code clearly states that "no home shall exceed the number of waste-removal stations as are found at Casa Cohen"). —  Dealbreaker
  • The No. 6 Penn women's lacrosse team trounced California, 10-2, Friday but may have suffered a long-term casualty in the process. —  The Daily Pennsylvanian
  • - In other Idol sporting news, Idol trounced the Olympics for the third time in a row on Tuesday, with Idol drawing 29.9 million viewers to NBC's average of 22.7 million during their two-hour face-off. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • Making his remarks for the first time after the BJP was trounced in the State, Mr. Shekhawat said the BJP's defeat "for no reason other than its own mistakes" left the party activists dismayed. —  Top Stories - Google News
  • But things turned sour during a shambolic week in Antigua which saw England trounced in the Stanford Super Series US 20million showdown. —  Cricket365
 

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