trounce

trounce meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

Examples of trounce in a sentence

• He moped into the schoolyard wishing she were a boy, and imagining how he would trounce her if she were.1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XX, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American...
• ‘Seize me these runnion caitiffs, trounce them, bounce them, bolt and shackle them!’1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 92:
• What skill and dexterity soldiers, who are called together only once a week, may possess, in trouncing an enemy, which has already trounced half Europe, I will not pretend to determine; [...]1803 August 28, G. H., “Letter II. August 28th, 1803.”, in Alfred’s Letters. An Essay on the Constitution of England, and an Appeal to the...
• I dislike bragging, but Edward and I trounced the opposition in the debate on state's rights last week.2003, Lauraine Snelling, More Than a Dream (Return to Red River; 3), Bloomington, Minn.: Bethany House Publishers, →ISBN, page 237:

All 16 example sentences with trounce

Synonyms of trounce

• thump
• rout
• beat
• bring down
• chew up
• eat someone for breakfast
• eat someone's lunch
• flog
• humble
• kick ass

All synonyms of trounce

Forms of trounce

Past tense of trounce: trounced

Origin of trounce

The origin of the verb is unknown; it is perhaps related to Old French troncer, troncher, troncir, tronchir (“to cut; to cut a piece from; to retrench”), from Old French tronce, tronche (“stump; piece of wood”). However, the English and Old French words differ in meaning. The noun is derived from the verb.

The verb is derived from Middle English traunce, trauncen, trancen (“to move about (?); to prance (?); to trample the ground”) (whence modern English trance with the same senses), possibly either: * from Middle English trauncen, transen (“to pass from life to death, die”), from Old French transir (“to cut through, pass through”), from Latin trānsīre, present active infinitive of trānseō (“to cross, traverse; to go over (to a side or faction); to pass over; to exceed, surpass; of time: to elapse, pass; (figuratively) to cease, pass away”), from trāns (“across; beyond”) + eō (“to go”); or * a blend of Middle English tramplen (“to tread on, trample”) + dauncen (“to dance”) or prauncen (“to prance”). The noun is probably derived from the verb.

Words formed from trounce

• trouncer
• trouncing
• untrounced

Words that rhyme with trounce

• bounce
• pronounce
• renounce
• denounce
• ounce
• pounce
• announce
• flounce
• enounce
• frounce
• debounce
• jounce

Questions about trounce

What does trounce mean?

Trounce means to beat severely; to thrash.

What is trounce in Tamil?

Trounce in Tamil is தோற்கடி, தொந்தரவு, தொல்லைகள். See Trounce meaning in Tamil.

How do you use trounce in a sentence?

He moped into the schoolyard wishing she were a boy, and imagining how he would trounce her if she were.

What part of speech is trounce?

Trounce can be a verb or a noun.

How do you pronounce trounce?

Trounce is pronounced /tɹaʊns/ (UK).

What is the past tense of trounce?

The past tense of trounce is trounced.