trounced

Verb (1)

trounce (third-person singular simple present trounces, present participle trouncing, simple past and past participle trounced)

1. (transitive) To beat severely; to thrash.
   • I tell you, I meane to trounce him after twenty in the hundred, and have a bout with him with two ſtaves and a pike for this geare.1592, Tho[mas] Nashe, “To the Most Copious Carminist of Our Time, and Famous Persecutor of Priscian, His Very Friend Maister Apis Lapis, […]”, in Strange Newes, of the Intercepting Certaine Letters...
2. (transitive) To beat or overcome thoroughly, to defeat heavily; especially (games, sports) to win against (someone) by a wide margin.
   • The German team trounced the Brazilians by 7 goals to 1.

   Synonyms:

   thump, rout, beat, bring down, convince, chew up, eat someone for breakfast, eat someone's lunch, flog, humble

3. (transitive) To chastise or punish physically or verbally; to scold with abusive language.
   • Say I, write I, or dooe I, what I can, he will haunt and trounce me perpetually, with ſpiritiſh workes of ſupererogation, inceſſant tormentours of the civilian and devine.1593, Gabriell Haruey [i.e., Gabriel Harvey], Pierces Supererogation: Or A New Prayse of the Old Asse. A Preparative to Certaine Larger Discourses, Intituled Nashes S. Fame, London: […] Iohn Wolfe...

   Synonyms:

   censure, rebuke

4. (UK, regional, transitive) To punish by bringing a lawsuit against; to sue.
   • Slept hard till 8 o'clock, then waked by Mr. Clerke's being come to consult me about Field's business, which we did by calling him up to my bedside, and he says we shall trounce him.1663 March 5 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “February 24th, 1662–1663”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume III...

Verb (2)

trounce (third-person singular simple present trounces, present participle trouncing, simple past and past participle trounced)

1. (UK, dialectal, intransitive) To walk heavily or with some difficulty; to tramp, to trudge.
   • There were no railways then—well, not in Hazelworth, at any rate—and as coach-fares would have absorbed most of our stock of "Sunday pennies," we had to "trounce" every inch of our way to Manchester.1882, Ben[jamin] Brierley, “Easter Holidays: A ‘Lump-Yead’s’ Story”, in Popular Edition of Tales and Sketches of Lancashire Life: Daisy Nook Sketches, Manchester: Abel Heywood & Son, […]; London...

   Synonyms:

   trance

2. (UK, dialectal, intransitive) To pass across or over; to traverse.
   • "And at school everyone knows I'm Dana Winslow's younger sister. Mr. Johnson, the science teacher, even calls me Dana sometimes." / Dana looked up then. "Do you answer him?" / "I have to. If I don't he thinks I'm not participating." Aly got up and trounced over to the bookcase.1998, Jill Barnett, “[Old Things] Chapter 8”, in Debbie Macomber, Susan Wiggs, Jill Barnett, That Summer Place, New York, N.Y.: Mira, →ISBN; republished New York, N.Y.: Mira, 2008, →ISBN, page 75

   Synonyms:

   trance

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