trounce in English dictionary

  • trounce

    Meanings and definitions of "trounce"

    • (transitive) to win against (someone) by a wide margin; to beat thoroughly, to defeat heavily
    • (transitive) to punish
    • (transitive) to beat severely; thrash
    • verb
      (transitive)
      to win against (someone) by a wide margin; to beat thoroughly, to defeat heavily
    • verb
      (transitive)
      to punish
    • verb
      (transitive)
      to beat severely; thrash
    • To end in success a struggle or contest.
    • verb
      beat severely with a whip or rod; "The teacher often flogged the students"; "The children were severely trounced"
    • verb
      censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup"
    • verb
      come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game"

    Synonyms of "trounce" in English dictionary

    call down, beat out, rebuke are the top synonyms of "trounce" in the English thesaurus.

    Grammar and declension of trounce

    • trounce ( third-person singular simple present trounces, present participle trouncing, simple past and past participle trounced)
    • trounce (third-person singular simple present trounces, present participle trouncing, simple past and past participle trounced)
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