trouncing

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

trouncing
    n 1: a sound defeat [syn: {thrashing}, {walloping}, {debacle},
         {drubbing}, {slaughter}, {trouncing}, {whipping}]
    2: the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows
       [syn: {beating}, {thrashing}, {licking}, {drubbing},
       {lacing}, {trouncing}, {whacking}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Trounce \Trounce\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Trounced}; p. pr. & vb.
   n. {Trouncing}.] [F. tronce, tronche, a stump, piece of wood.
   See {Truncheon}.]
   To punish or beat severely; to whip smartly; to flog; to
   castigate. [Colloq.]
   [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

62 Moby Thesaurus words for "trouncing":
      Waterloo, bastinado, basting, battery, beating, belting, buffeting,
      caning, clubbing, collapse, conquering, conquest,
      corporal punishment, cowhiding, crash, cudgeling, deathblow,
      debacle, defeasance, defeat, destruction, downfall, drubbing,
      failure, fall, flagellation, flailing, flogging, fustigation,
      hiding, horsewhipping, lacing, lambasting, lashing, lathering,
      licking, mastery, overcoming, overthrow, overturn, pistol-whipping,
      quietus, rawhiding, rout, ruin, scourging, shellacking, smash,
      spanking, strapping, stripes, subdual, subduing, subjugation,
      swingeing, switching, thrashing, trimming, truncheoning, undoing,
      vanquishment, whipping