What does trounce mean?

Definitions for trounce
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Princeton's WordNet

  1. flog, welt, whip, lather, lash, slash, strap, trounceverb

    beat severely with a whip or rod

    "The teacher often flogged the students"; "The children were severely trounced"

  2. beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquishverb

    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"

  3. call on the carpet, take to task, rebuke, rag, trounce, reproof, lecture, reprimand, jaw, dress down, call down, scold, chide, berate, bawl out, remonstrate, chew out, chew up, have words, lambaste, lambastverb

    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"

Wiktionary

  1. trounceverb

    to win against (someone) by a wide margin; to beat thoroughly, to defeat heavily

    The Mexican team trounced the Americans by 10 goals to 1.

  2. trounceverb

    to punish

  3. trounceverb

    to beat severely; thrash

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. To Trounceverb

    To punish by an indictment or information.

    Etymology: derived by Stephen Skinner from tronc or tronson, French, a club.

    More probable, and like to hold
    Than hand, or seal, or breaking gold;
    For which so many, that renounc’d
    Their plighted contracts have been trounc’d. Hudibras.

    If you talk of peaching, I’ll peach first: I’ll trounce you for offering to corrupt my honesty. John Dryden, Spanish Fryar.

ChatGPT

  1. trounce

    To trounce means to defeat or beat someone or something decisively or severely, typically in a competition or contest. It can also imply a thorough or humiliating defeat.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Trounceverb

    to punish or beat severely; to whip smartly; to flog; to castigate

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Trounce

    trowns, v.t. to punish or beat severely. [O. Fr. troncer, to cut—L. truncus, a trunk.]

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  1. counter

  2. recount

  3. cornute

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of trounce in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of trounce in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

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