trounce

IPA: trˈaʊns

noun

  • An act of trouncing: a severe beating, a thrashing; a thorough defeat.
  • A walk involving some difficulty or effort; a trek, a tramp, a trudge.
  • A journey involving quick travel; also, one that is dangerous or laborious.

verb

  • (transitive) To beat severely; to thrash.
  • (transitive) To beat or overcome thoroughly, to defeat heavily; especially (games, sports) to win against (someone) by a wide margin.
  • (transitive) To chastise or punish physically or verbally; to scold with abusive language.
  • (transitive, Britain, regional) To punish by bringing a lawsuit against; to sue.
  • (intransitive) To walk heavily or with some difficulty; to tramp, to trudge.
  • (intransitive) To pass across or over; to traverse.
  • (intransitive) To travel quickly over a long distance.
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Examples of "trounce" in Sentences

  • Dropping the pancakes on the ground, he trounces after her.
  • For 15 years I trounce the averages and I blow it one year.
  • Here's to hoping the deletionists won't trounce all over it.
  • So find the fucking reference book that trounces the style books.
  • He was titular head, and only there as a plot to trounce the the English.
  • Young inexperienced startups regularly trounce the old blue chip companies.
  • We did "trounce" them in the first half but the second half was pretty dire.
  • Let's not forget we've seen the SNP hit the mid to high 30s in other poll so there's no reason why they won't "trounce" Labour yet.
  • The attacks on public-school education have strengthened my resolve not to let outside interests trounce us into the ground without a fight.
  • As the Giants went on to trounce the Padres 6-2, Mr. Zimei trudged back to his dressing room, yanking off a fake head to reveal a real head drenched in sweat.
  • In fact, it used to be somewhat of a tradition for graduating students to trounce around the world for a while, whether that happened to be foreign or otherwise.
  • For Kale, they added a spacious, patient depth that hadn't existed, while laying a punchy hip-hop beat for Vishal Vaid and Iswhat? emcee Napoleon Maddox to float and trounce over.
  • The last thing the landlady heard him say, as she closed the street door after him, was, that he was off now, to "trounce" the two Tidbury watchmen, for not stopping the robbery -- to "trounce them handsomely," as sure as his name was Matthew Colebatchl

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