Verb
1. beat severely with a whip or rod;
"The teacher often flogged the students""The children were severely trounced"2. come out better in a competition, race, or conflict;
"Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship""We beat the competition""Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game"3. censure severely or angrily;
"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"