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TROUNCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does trounce mean? 

TROUNCE (verb)
  The verb TROUNCE has 3 senses:

1. beat severely with a whip or rodplay

2. come out better in a competition, race, or conflictplay

3. censure severely or angrilyplay

  Familiarity information: TROUNCE used as a verb is uncommon.


 Dictionary entry details 


TROUNCE (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they trounce  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it trounces  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: trounced  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: trounced  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: trouncing  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Beat severely with a whip or rod

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

flog; lash; lather; slash; strap; trounce; welt; whip

Context example:

The children were severely trounced

Hypernyms (to "trounce" is one way to...):

beat; beat up; work over (give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "trounce"):

flagellate; scourge (whip)

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)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

They want to trounce the prisoners

Derivation:

trouncing (the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Come out better in a competition, race, or conflict

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Synonyms:

beat; beat out; crush; shell; trounce; vanquish

Context example:

Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game

Hypernyms (to "trounce" is one way to...):

defeat; get the better of; overcome (win a victory over)

"Trounce" entails doing...:

win (be the winner in a contest or competition; be victorious)

Verb group:

beat; circumvent; outfox; outsmart; outwit; overreach (beat through cleverness and wit)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "trounce"):

best; outdo; outflank; scoop; trump (get the better of)

bat; clobber; cream; drub; lick; thrash (beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight)

outplay (excel or defeat in a game)

immobilise; immobilize (make defenseless)

checkmate; mate (place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game)

overmaster; overpower; overwhelm (overcome by superior force)

outfight (to fight better than; get the better of)

get over; master; overcome; subdue; surmount (get on top of; deal with successfully)

exceed; outdo; outgo; outmatch; outperform; outstrip; surmount; surpass (be or do something to a greater degree)

cheat; chicane; chouse; jockey; screw; shaft (defeat someone through trickery or deceit)

get the jump (be there first)

rout; spread-eagle; spreadeagle (defeat disastrously)

get the best; have the best; overcome (overcome, usually through no fault or weakness of the person that is overcome)

whomp (beat overwhelmingly)

mop up; pip; rack up; whip; worst (defeat thoroughly)

eliminate (remove from a contest or race)

walk over (beat easily)

outpoint; outscore (score more points than one's opponents)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sentence example:

The fighter managed to trounce his opponent

Derivation:

trouncing (a sound defeat)


Sense 3

Meaning:

Censure severely or angrily

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

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; scold; take to task; trounce

Context example:

The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup

Hypernyms (to "trounce" is one way to...):

criticise; criticize; knock; pick apart (find fault with; express criticism of; point out real or perceived flaws)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "trounce"):

brush down; tell off (reprimand)

castigate; chasten; chastise; correct; objurgate (censure severely)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody


 Context examples 


Once, during a brief halt, when he got tangled in the traces and delayed the start, both Dave and Sol-leks flew at him and administered a sound trouncing.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)



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