Definitions for Trounce
traʊnstrounce

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. flog, welt, whip, lather, lash, slash, strap, trounceverb

   beat severely with a whip or rod

   "The teacher often flogged the students"; "The children were severely trounced"

2. beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquishverb

   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"

3. 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, lambastverb

   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"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. trounceverb

   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.

2. trounceverb

   to punish

3. trounceverb

   to beat severely; thrash

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. To Trounceverb

   To punish by an indictment or information.

   Etymology: derived by Stephen Skinner from tronc or tronson, French, a club.

   More probable, and like to hold
   Than hand, or seal, or breaking gold;
   For which so many, that renounc’d
   Their plighted contracts have been trounc’d. Hudibras.

   If you talk of peaching, I’ll peach first: I’ll trounce you for offering to corrupt my honesty. John Dryden, Spanish Fryar.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. trounce

   To trounce means to defeat or beat someone or something decisively or severely, typically in a competition or contest. It can also imply a thorough or humiliating defeat.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Trounceverb

   to punish or beat severely; to whip smartly; to flog; to castigate

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Trounce

   trowns, v.t. to punish or beat severely. [O. Fr. troncer, to cut—L. truncus, a trunk.]

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1. • Criticize

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Anagrams for Trounce »

1. counter

2. recount

3. cornute

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Trounce in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Trounce in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Trounce
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Trounce
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Trounce
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Trounce
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=Trounce
7. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Trounce