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"