<Whip, chastise, castigate, flagellate, scourge, lash, trounce, thrash, flog, maul, drub, switch, spank, bastinado.

"And get jolly well trounced for our impudence," grimaced Midshipman Hepson.

Once, too, when there was some grumbling and talk of a mutiny over the state of the provisions, he was of opinion that they should not wait for the dogs to rise, but that they should march forward and set upon them until they had trounced the devilment out of them.

All this is nothing; but I'll trounce you all.

But if I do not trounce them [Exit LINGUA.

reprimand, chastise, castigate, lash, blow up, trounce, trim, laver la tete

By black disaster I was trounced until it jarred my spine; I was a failure so pronounced I didn't need a sign.

His whole being was bent on getting hold of the young traitor and trouncing him within an inch of his life.

He is not happy until he has soundly trounced his predecessors and opponents.

But he and Mr. JOYNSON-HICKS and Mr. DILLONwhose sudden solicitude for the inhabitants of London was gently chaffed by Mr. CHAMBERLAINwere deservedly trounced by Mr. BONAR LAW, who declared that if their craven squealings were typical he should despair of victory.

That year (1989), the Legislators XI led by Chief Minister Rane trounced the Press XI, led by Mudaliar.

"Let's boil over together and trounce Mr. Hutchinson.

The advocates of "darkness and composure" have not been very happy in their arguments, but they are at least preferable to the members of Parliament deservedly trounced by Mr. Bonar Law, who declared that if their craven squealings were typical he should despair of victory.

"Ought to be soundly trounced," declared the judge.

I think she ought to be soundly trounced, and my guess is she's goin' to be.

Bitterly disappointed first at seeing the Turks vanquished by the Balkan Leaguetheir greatest admirers could not even claim that the Turks had had any 'moral' victoriestheir chagrin, when they saw the Bulgarians trounced by the Serbians, knew no bounds.

When he had received the report, the countenance of Alexéi Petróvitch brightenened"Kortsáreff has gloriously trounced the mountaineers!" said he.

Quick, quick, untruss me; I will truss and trounce thee.

Quick, quick, untruss me; I will truss and trounce thee; Come Wench a kiss between each point; kiss close; It is a sweet Parenthesis.

Another time she was speaking of witches wthout any occasion giuen her, and said if they accused her for a witch she would haue them to the gouernor, she would trounce them.

What a trouncing he received from the critics who have since heaped praise on many worse men!

A letter which he wrote me during the run of "The Wandering Heir" was such a wonderful lesson to me that I am going to quote it almost in full, in the hope that it may be a lesson to other actresses"happy in this, they are not yet so old but they can learn"; unhappy in this, that they have never had a Charles Reade to give them a trouncing!

Instead of accepting the verdict, he trounced the first-night audience for giving it.

"I am in hopes we shall trounce him yet, bravely as he carries it.

O, it was fun alive, I vow, To see that fellow bounce And hear him howl and make a row And threaten he would trounce The boy that did the mischief, But that boy was seldom found,