trouncing vs tanning

trouncing and tanning both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
trouncing	Yes	No	No	No
tanning	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, tanning is a hyponym of trouncing; that is, tanning is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than trouncing:

Other hyponyms of trouncing include flagellation, flogging, lashing, whipping, flagellation.

trouncing (noun)	tanning (noun)
the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows	making leather from rawhide
a sound defeat	beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment
	process in which skin pigmentation darkens as a result of exposure to ultraviolet light