trounce

English

Etymology

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for trounce in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Borrowed from Old French tronce, tronche (“stump, piece of wood”). See truncheon.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tɹaʊns/
Rhymes: -aʊns

Verb

trounce (third-person singular simple present trounces, present participle trouncing, simple past and past participle trounced)

(transitive) 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.
(transitive) to punish
(transitive) to beat severely; thrash

Translations

To win by a wide margin

French: écraser (fr), pulvériser (fr)
German: vernichtend schlagen
Hebrew: הביס‎‎ (hevís)
Norwegian: knuse (no), mose (no)

Spanish: aplastar (es)
Swedish: utklassa (sv), krossa (sv), mosa (sv), ge storstryk
Turkish: bozguna uğratmak

To punish

German: scharf zurechtweisen

Turkish: (colloquial) fırça atmak (tr); paylamak (tr)

To beat severely; thrash

Esperanto: bategi
German: (colloquial) verhauen (de), verprügeln (de)
Ido: bategar (io)

Swedish: klå upp (sv)
Turkish: dayak atmak (tr), dövmek (tr)

Anagrams

Counter, Cureton, Cutrone, cornute, counter, counter-, countre, recount

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