trounce

To trounce is to beat or to score a major victory.

(verb)

An example of trounce is when you beat someone by 20 to 1.

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See trounce in Webster's New World College Dictionary

transitive verb trounced, trouncing

  1. to beat; thrash; flog
  2. Informal to defeat soundly

Origin: < ?

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See trounce in American Heritage Dictionary 4

verb trounced trounced, trounc·ing, trounc·es
verb, transitive
  1. To thrash; beat.
  2. To defeat decisively.
verb, intransitive
To censure something or someone forcefully: “I was out to trounce on every digression and indiscretion conducted (or should I say semiconducted) in this performance” (Robert Maxwell Stern).

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