If you trounce someone in a competition or contest, you defeat them easily or by a large score. In Rugby League, Australia trounced France by sixty points to four. = thrash. to defeat someone completely
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 stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup"