Crossword clues for trounce
trounce
- Duke with power smashed 'Fight Club' - no hearts sinking
- Defeat utterly
- Turkey spotted feline stuff
- Thrash counter-revolutionary?
- Thoroughly defeat
- Defeat decisively
- Beat badly
- Defeat soundly
- Beat soundly
- Defeat handily
- Wipe the floor with
- Utterly defeat
- Whup but good
- Give a shellacking
- Give a whupping to
- Beat by a lot
- Don't just defeat
- Defeat solidly
- Defeat heavily
- Defeat and then some
- Bury on the field
- Paste
- Worst in the worst way
- Beat by a wide margin
- Beat decisively
- Rout
- Clobber
- Beat handily
- Flog
- Cure not originally presented is easily best
- Crush half of troy weight
- Concerning split in peace pact rout
- Ogre’s followed by kinsman hiding every large hammer
- Lick cat after skin of terrier
- Beat gutless tiger, wild cat
- Beat edges of thinner part of a pound
- Beat counter revolutionary
- Beat counter when drunk
- Beat counter to get change
- Beat counter madly
- Heavily defeat
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International 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.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1550s, "to trouble, afflict, harass," later "to beat, thrash" (1560s), of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to Middle French troncer "to cut, cut off a piece from," from tronce "piece of timber," from Old French tronc (see trunk). Related: Trounced; trouncing.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) to win against (someone) by a wide margin; to beat thoroughly, to defeat heavily 2 (context transitive English) to punish 3 (context transitive English) to beat severely; thrash
WordNet
v. 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]
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, vanquish]
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, rebuke, rag, reproof, lecture, reprimand, jaw, dress down, call down, scold, chide, berate, bawl out, remonstrate, chew out, chew up, have words, lambaste, lambast]
Usage examples of "trounce".
Remember that show I invited you to see at the White House, where he trounced Medill and those other lily-livered Chicagoans?
Very shrewdly he had declined to ask the Senate for a triumph, though his men had hailed him imperator on the field when he had trounced the Galilaean army near Lake Gennesarus.
Senate for a triumph, though his men had hailed him imperator on the field when he had trounced the Galilaean army near Lake Gennesarus.
The small picquets on the outlying streets, none larger than thirty men, fortified themselves in houses and waited for Marshal Massena to trounce the enemy and send reinforcements back to Coimbra.
I aim to trounce the local oystermen in the regatta, Elliott said, hooking his thumbs into his white gallowses.
December, culminating in a fine show on Christmas Day and Boxing Day, when the Senussi, although they took full advantage of the extraordinarily difficult country, were trounced so severely that more fighting was unlikely for some weeks.
Mongols began to pour in from the east, sacking Samarkand and overrunning most of the expanse of the old Parthia before a Moslem army of Seljuks, Swarizmi, Kurds, Ortuquids, Zangids, Abbasids, and Azerbaijans met them on the banks of the Tigris and were soundly trounced.
Greeley assures us that his man Wadsworth will trounce the Peace Democrat, Seymour, in New York.
Lincoln, sitting on the porch in the crisp early winter evening, seemed curiously relaxed for a man whose party has just been trounced in an election.
While her sisters Adalia and Oranie, young Eastern ladies now, had lost the skills they learned in the Yamani Islands, their mother had trounced Kel every day for a month before Kel's old ability had returned.
Ellis Loew was soundly trounced in the June '48 Republican primary, and I celebrated by cooking up beakers of moonshine on my Bunsen burner, getting everyone in the crime lab fried.
Maria, who had been riding on a pillion behind one of the equerries, who she roundly trounced and anathematized all the way, came and waited on her mistress.
It was the first and only time in the congress that one of the issei had stood up and trounced one of the nisei in public debate.
One night in Leith Walk, dizzy after a trouncing of the Hibees, Rico had marched into a tattoo parlour and demanded the works.
Earlier in the year Nathaniel Banks had led a fine army down the Shenandoah Valley, where he had been tricked and trounced by Thomas Jackson.