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"