trounce vs beat up

trounce and beat up both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
trounce	No	No	Yes	No
beat up	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, beat up is a hypernym of trounce; that is, beat up is a word with a broader meaning than trounce:

trounce: beat severely with a whip or rod
beat up: give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression

Other hypernyms of trounce include beat, work over.

trounce (verb)	beat up (verb)
censure severely or angrily	gather
come out better in a competition, race, or conflict	give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression
beat severely with a whip or rod