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

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

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transitive verb trounced, trouncing

to beat; thrash; flog
Informal to defeat soundly

Origin: < ?

Related Forms:

trouncer noun

See trounce in American Heritage Dictionary 4

verb trounced trounced, trounc·ing, trounc·es

verb, transitive

To thrash; beat.
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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