trounce
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(verb) come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi beat Becker in tennsi championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game" |
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Synonyms: beat, beat out, crush, vanquish |
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Related Words: bat, best, cheat, checkmate, chicane, chouse, clobber, defeat, drub, exceed, get the jump, immobilize, jockey, lick, mop up, outdo, outfight, outflank, outgo, outmatch, outplay, outpoint, outscore, outstrip, overcome, overmaster, overpower, overwhelm, pip, rack up, rout, scoop, screw, shaft, spread-eagle, spreadeagle, surmount, surpass, thrash, trump, whip, whomp, worst |
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(verb) beat severely with a whip or rod; "The teacher often flogged the students" |
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Synonyms: flog, lash, lather, slash, strap, welt, whip |
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Related Words: beat, beat up, birch, cat, cowhide, flagellate, horsewhip, scourge |
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(verb) be a mystery or bewildering to: "This beats me!" "Got me--I don't know the answer!" |
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Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, puzzle, stupefy, stupify |
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Related Words: bedevil, befuddle, confound, confuse, discombobulate, elude, escape, fox, fuddle, mix up, riddle, stagger, stump, throw |
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