Trounce Definition

trouns

trounced, trounces, trouncing

verb

trounced, trounces, trouncing

To beat; thrash; flog.

Webster's New World

To defeat soundly.

Webster's New World

To criticize severely.

The play was trounced by reviewers.

American Heritage

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.

Wiktionary

To punish.

Wiktionary

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Origin of Trounce

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

From Wiktionary
From French tronce, tronche, a stump, piece of wood. See truncheon.

From Wiktionary
Origin unknown

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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