Trounce Definition

trouns
trounced, trounces, trouncing
verb
trounced, trounces, trouncing
To beat; thrash; flog.
Webster's New World
To defeat soundly.
Webster's New World
To criticize severely.
The play was trounced by reviewers.
American Heritage
To trounce is to beat or to score a major victory.
An example of trounce is when you beat someone by 20 to 1.
YourDictionary
To punish.
Wiktionary
Antonyms:
Advertisement

Origin of Trounce

  • Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

    From Wiktionary

  • From French tronce, tronche, a stump, piece of wood. See truncheon.

    From Wiktionary

  • Origin unknown

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Find Similar Words

Find similar words to trounce using the buttons below.

Words Starting With

Words Ending With

Unscrambles

trounce
Advertisement