Beat badly

Usage examples of trounced.

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.

The North has just seen its latest in-vasion of the Confederate States of America trounced, and now Lee will try to exploit that victory by leading the first Confederate invasion of the United States of America.

By now, ONI knew Tourville was one of the Peep admirals who'd trounced the Allies so severely in Esther McQueen's offensive, and it looked like Foraker was still his tac officer.

All but one of his opponents withdrew when they realized who they faced, and the one woman who stayed the course was trounced at the ballot box, receiving barely fourteen percent of the vote and conceding defeat even before the polling closed.

Napoleon was confidently said to have taken poison, then a contrary rumour claimed that the Emperor had broken a Russian army north of Paris, but the very next day a Spanish Colonel swore on the six bleeding wounds of Christ that the Prussians had trounced Bonaparte and fed his body to their hunting dogs.

The battle of Toulouse was fought after that surrender, but such was the speed of travel that the news did not reach Wellington till two days after he had trounced Soult.

She can recall the disdainful looks some mothers gave her after she trounced their daughters, but there may be other reasons for this.

She won the 100m and then, in the 200m, trounced Cathy by three metres, running 22.

C, by a tribe that took refuge here after being trounced by the Romans—so they called it aptly Maleventum, for the ill wind that blew them here.

Austria's troops down south have soundly trounced the Italians, as expected.