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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

TROUNCE, v.t. trouns. To punish, or to beat severely. [A low word.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: beat severely with a whip or rod; "The teacher often flogged the students"; "The children were severely trounced" [syn: flog, welt, whip, lather, lash, slash, strap, trounce]
2: 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" [syn: beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish]
3: 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" [syn: 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, lambast]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb (trounced; trouncing) Etymology: origin unknown Date: 1868 to thrash or punish severely; especially to defeat decisively

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. 1 defeat heavily. 2 beat, thrash. 3 punish severely. Derivatives: trouncer n. trouncing n. Etymology: 16th c., = afflict: orig. unkn.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Trounce Trounce, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trounced; p. pr. & vb. n. Trouncing.] [F. tronce, tronche, a stump, piece of wood. See Truncheon.] To punish or beat severely; to whip smartly; to flog; to castigate. [Colloq.]

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(trounces, trouncing, trounced) If you trounce someone in a competition or contest, you defeat them easily or by a large score. (INFORMAL) In Rugby League, Australia trounced France by sixty points to four. = thrash VERB: V n

Moby Thesaurus

assail, attack, baste, bastinado, bear the palm, beat, beat all hollow, beat hollow, belabor, belt, best, birch, blister, buffet, cane, castigate, clobber, club, cowhide, cudgel, cut, defeat, destroy, do in, drub, excoriate, fix, flagellate, flail, flay, flog, fustigate, give a whipping, give the stick, hide, hors de combat, horsewhip, knout, lace, lambaste, lash, lather, lay on, lick, outclass, outdo, outfight, outgeneral, outmaneuver, outpoint, outrun, outsail, outshine, overwhelm, pistol-whip, pommel, pummel, put, rawhide, roast, ruin, scarify, scathe, scorch, scourge, settle, shellac, skin, skin alive, slash, smite, spank, strap, stripe, swinge, switch, take the cake, thrash, thump, trim, triumph, triumph over, truncheon, undo, walk all over, wallop, whale, whip, whomp, whop, win, worst