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Trounce   /traʊns/   Listen
Trounce

verb
(past & past part. trounced; pres. part. trouncing)
1.
Beat severely with a whip or rod.  Synonyms: flog, lash, lather, slash, strap, welt, whip.  "The children were severely trounced"
2.
Come out better in a competition, race, or conflict.  Synonyms: beat, beat out, crush, shell, vanquish.  "We beat the competition" , "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game"
3.
Censure severely or angrily.  Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, reproof, scold, take to task.  "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister" , "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup"






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"Trounce" Quotes from Famous Books



... law did not empower the worthy magistrate to send him to the treadmill, there to recreate himself for six or eight months, as a warning to the whole fraternity of lawless vagabonds." Here he nodded his head at Jorrocks as much as to say, "I'll trounce you, my boy!" He then produced maps and plans of the different estates, and a model of the shed, to show how it had all happened, and after going through the case in such a strain as would induce one to believe it was a trial ...
— Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities • Robert Smith Surtees



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