Example : The teacher often flogged the students.
The children were severely trounced.

Synonyms : flog, lash, lather, slash, strap, welt, whip

Example : Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship.
We beat the competition.
Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game.

Synonyms : beat, beat out, crush, shell, vanquish

Example : 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.

Synonyms : bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, take to task