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Punish hound taking common order rolling over (8)

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I believe the answer is:

chastise

'punish' is the definition.
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'hound taking common order rolling over' is the wordplay.
'hound' becomes 'chase' (I've seen this before).
'taking' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'common order' becomes 'sit' (order given to dogs).
'rolling over' says the letters should be written in reverse.
'sit' reversed gives 'tis'.
'chase' going around 'tis' is 'CHASTISE'.

(Other definitions for chastise that I've seen before include "Censure severely" , "Scold severely" , "Correct!" , "Teach Sis to scold" , "Beat" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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