Word Meanings - TROUNCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To punish or beat severely; to whip smartly; to flog; to castigate. (more info) Etym:

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TROUNCE)

• Chide
• Rate
• scold
• trounce
• reprove
• reprimand
• rebuke
• blame
• admonish
• objurgate

Related words: (words related to TROUNCE)

• ADMONISHER
  One who admonishes.
• SCOLDER
  1. One who scolds. The oyster catcher; -- so called from its shrill cries. The old squaw.
• CHIDESTER
  A female scold.
• REPRIMAND
  Severe or formal reproof; reprehension, private or public. Goldsmith gave his landlady a sharp reprimand for her treatment of him. Macaulay. (more info) reprimenda, that is to be checked or suppressed, fr. reprimere to check, repress; pref. re-
• SCOLDINGLY
  In a scolding manner.
• CHIDER
  One who chides or quarrels. Shak.
• OBJURGATE
  To chide; to reprove. (more info) + jurgare to quarrel, scold, fr. jus right, court. See
• BLAME
  LL. also to blame, fr. Gr. to speak ill to slander, to blaspheme, fr. evil speaking, perh, for ; injury + a saying, fr. to 1. To censure; to express disapprobation of; to find fault with; to reproach. We have none to blame but ourselves.
• BLAMER
  One who blames. Wyclif.
• CHIDERESS
  She who chides.
• REPROVE
  1. To convince. When he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment. John xvi. 9. 2. To disprove; to refute. Reprove my allegation, if you can. Shak. 3. To chide to the face as blameworthy; to accuse as guilty;
• REBUKE
  1. A direct and pointed reproof; a reprimand; also, chastisement; punishment. For thy sake I have suffered rebuke. Jer. xv. 15. Why bear you these rebukes and answer not Shak. 2. Check; rebuff. L'Estrange. To be without rebuke, to live without
• TROUNCE
  To punish or beat severely; to whip smartly; to flog; to castigate. (more info) Etym:
• REPROVER
  One who, or that which, reproves.
• SCOLDING
  a. & n. from Scold, v. Scolding bridle, an iron frame. See Brank, n., 2.
• BLAMEFUL
  1. Faulty; meriting blame. Shak. 2. Attributing blame or fault; implying or conveying censure; faultfinding; censorious. Chaucer. -- Blame"ful*ly, adv. -- Blame"ful*ness, n.
• REBUKEFUL
  Containing rebuke; of the nature of rebuke. -- Re*buke"ful*ly, adv.
• REPRIMANDER
  One who reprimands.
• ADMONISHMENT
  Admonition. Shak.
• BLAMEWORTHY
  Deserving blame; culpable; reprehensible. -- Blame"wor`thi*ness, n.
• ORCHIDEOUS
  See ORCHIDACEOUS
• DISBLAME
  To clear from blame. Chaucer.
• SCOLD
  To find fault or rail with rude clamor; to brawl; to utter harsh, rude, boisterous rebuke; to chide sharply or coarsely; -- often with at; as, to scold at a servant. Pardon me, lords, 't is the first time ever I was forced to scold. Shak.
• ORCHIDEAN
  Orchidaceous.
• FOREADMONISH
  To admonish beforehand, or before the act or event. Bp. Hall.
• SELF-REPROVED
  Reproved by one's own conscience or one's own sense of guilt.