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US
/ˈtɹaʊns/
]
[ UK /tɹˈaʊns/ ]
[ UK /tɹˈaʊns/ ]
VERB
-
beat severely with a whip or rod
The children were severely trounced
The teacher often flogged the students -
censure severely or angrily
The deputy ragged the Prime Minister
The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car
The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup -
come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
We beat the competition
Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship
Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game
How To Use trounce In A Sentence
- It's completely inaccurate to say that an incumbent is being "trounced" in fundraising when legislators couldn't even begin to raise money until April 13. Can Exalted Democratic Consultant Christian Sinderman Deliver in 2010? « PubliCola
- Zoilus, famed as the Homeromastix, or Homer's trouncer. Homer's Odyssey A Commentary
- And in none of the polls, does McCain get "trounced" by anyone. Poll: Hillary Ahead By Five Points In Pennsylvania Primary
- How dare he even mention her name when he is one of the worst trouncers of human rights everywhere?
- His opponent last year was a truly level-headed and sane man with prudent ideas, yet he got trounced. Think Progress » Virginia lawmaker: Children with disabilities are God’s punishment to women who previously had abortions.
- A furlong out they were hailing a champion but he just got beat; he has not been trounced, he was only beaten in the last 100 yards.
- Howard, of course, went on to trounce Mark in the only contest that in the end mattered - on the election day.
- She was a slither slower last night but trounced the rest nonetheless. Times, Sunday Times
- Again, I am not a trouncer, but I want to say I feel it's legitimate to express a concern, and being compared to McCarthyite witchhunting, if that is the incident you refer to, is not a fair analogy.
- Still, with "Game Over" out of print and out of date, who will tell the saga of how Nintendo trounced upstart Sega, grappled with Microsoft's Xbox, triumphed with the Wii and now contends with casual gaming on phones? Mario's Many Fathers
