Trounce

Quick meaning: Trounce is a verb meaning (transitive) To beat severely; to thrash.

Meaning

(transitive) To beat severely; to thrash.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To beat or overcome thoroughly, to defeat heavily; especially (games, sports) to win against (someone) by a wide margin.
2. (transitive) To chastise or punish physically or verbally; to scold with abusive language.
3. (transitive, British, regional) To punish by bringing a lawsuit against; to sue.
4. An act of trouncing: a severe beating, a thrashing; a thorough defeat.
5. (intransitive) To walk heavily or with some difficulty; to tramp, to trudge.
6. (intransitive) To pass across or over; to traverse.
7. (intransitive) To travel quickly over a long distance.

Example Sentences

The Mexican team trounced the Americans by 10 goals to 1.

O yez; take notice! that the first bad boy I find killing an innocent bird, or trouncing a poor frog, I will have no mercy on him.

I tell you, I meane to trounce him after twenty in the hundred, and have a bout with him with two ſtaves and a pike for this geare.

What skill and dexterity soldiers, who are called together only once a week, may possess, in trouncing an enemy, which has already trounced half Europe, I will not pretend to determine; [...]

Word Forms

• trounces
• trouncing
• trounced

Synonyms for trounce

Depending on context, synonyms include thump, rout, beat, convince, flog, humble.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include beat, crush, flog, slash, lash, welt.

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