| trounce (trouns) v. trounced, trounc·ing, trounc·es v.tr. 1. To thrash; beat. 2. To defeat decisively. v.intr. To censure something or someone forcefully: "I was out to trounce on every digression and indiscretion conducted (or should I say semiconducted) in this performance" (Robert Maxwell Stern). [Origin unknown.] |
trounce [traʊns]
vb
(tr) to beat or defeat utterly; thrash
[of unknown origin]
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| Verb | 1. |  trounce - beat severely with a whip or rod; "The teacher often flogged the students"; "The children were severely trounced"beat up, work over, beat - give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression; "Thugs beat him up when he walked down the street late at night"; "The teacher used to beat the students" flagellate, scourge - whip; "The religious fanatics flagellated themselves" leather - whip with a leather strap horsewhip - whip with a whip intended for horses switch - flog with or as if with a flexible rod cowhide - flog with a cowhide cat - beat with a cat-o'-nine-tails birch - whip with a birch twig |
| 2. |  trounce - 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"walk over - beat easily; "The local team walked over their old rivals for the championship" eliminate - remove from a contest or race; "The cyclist has eliminated all the competitors in the race" whomp - beat overwhelmingly get the best, have the best, overcome - overcome, usually through no fault or weakness of the person that is overcome; "Heart disease can get the best of us" get the jump - be there first; "They had gotten the jump on their competitors" outsmart, outwit, overreach, circumvent, outfox, beat - beat through cleverness and wit; "I beat the traffic"; "She outfoxed her competitors" outdo, outgo, outmatch, outperform, outstrip, surpass, exceed, surmount - be or do something to a greater degree; "her performance surpasses that of any other student I know"; "She outdoes all other athletes"; "This exceeds all my expectations"; "This car outperforms all others in its class" defeat, get the better of, overcome - win a victory over; "You must overcome all difficulties"; "defeat your enemies"; "He overcame his shyness"; "He overcame his infirmity"; "Her anger got the better of her and she blew up" surmount, master, overcome, subdue, get over - get on top of; deal with successfully; "He overcame his shyness" outfight - to fight better than; get the better of; "the Rangers outfought the Maple Leafs"; "The French forces outfought the Germans" checkmate, mate - place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game; "Kasparov checkmated his opponent after only a few moves" immobilise, immobilize - make defenseless outplay - excel or defeat in a game; "The Knicks outplayed the Lakers" | |
| 3. |  trounce - 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"call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, bawl out, berate, rebuke, reproof, scold, take to task, reprimand, call down, lambast, lambaste, lecture, remonstrate, jaw, rag castigate, chasten, chastise, objurgate, correct - censure severely; "She chastised him for his insensitive remarks" brush down, tell off - reprimand; "She told the misbehaving student off" criticise, criticize, pick apart, knock - find fault with; express criticism of; point out real or perceived flaws; "The paper criticized the new movie"; "Don't knock the food--it's free" |
trounce
verb defeat someone heavily or utterly, beat, thrash, slaughter (informal), stuff (slang), tank (slang), hammer (informal), crush, overwhelm, lick (informal), paste (slang), rout, walk over (informal), clobber (slang), run rings around (informal), wipe the floor with (informal), make mincemeat of, blow someone out of the water (slang), give someone a hiding (informal), drub, beat someone hollow (Brit. informal), give someone a pasting (slang) Australia trounced France by sixty points to four.
Translations
trounce [traʊns] VT
1. (= defeat) → dar una paliza a, derrotar
2. (= thrash) → zurrar, dar una paliza a
trounce
vt → verprügeln; (Sport) → vernichtend schlagen
trounce [traʊns] vt (beat) → picchiare; (defeat) → battere
trounce [traʊns] vt (beat) → picchiare; (defeat) → battere
trounce [traʊns] vt (beat) → picchiare; (defeat) → battere
v trounce [trauns]
to beat or defeat completely Our football team was trounced. oorwin, verslaan يَهْزِم، يَتَغَلَّب على размазвам rozdrtit banke fertigmachen κατατροπώνω, νικώ κατά κράτος derrotar, dar una paliza lüüa saama در هم کوبیدن löylyttää battre à plates coutures לְהָבִיס हरा देना poraziti, potući megver mengalahkan mala battere 負かす 격파하다 sutriuškinti sakaut menewaskan dgn teruk inmaken slå grundig pobić derrotar a zdrobi, a bate разгромить rozdrviť, nabiť naklestiti potpuno poraziti slå, klå ชนะอย่างเด็ดขาด hezimete uğratmak []痛擊 розгромити, розбити پورے طور پر ہرا دينا thắng đậm 痛惩击
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