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trounce - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'trounce' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Trounce [ v. t.]
- To punish or beat severely; to whip smartly; to flog; to castigate.

Meaning of 'trounce' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . trounce [ v]
Meaning (1):
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
Example in sentence:
  • Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship;
  • Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game;
  • We beat the competition
Meaning (2):
- beat severely with a whip or rod
Example in sentence:
  • The children were severely trounced;
  • The teacher often flogged the students
Meaning (3):
- censure severely or angrily
Example in sentence:
  • The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup;
  • The deputy ragged the Prime Minister;
  • The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car

Nearby Words:

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