trounce

trounce

T0382600 (trouns)tr.v. trounced, trounc·ing, trounc·es 1. To thrash; beat: "A crew of clean-cut thugs trounced him as he stepped out of a taxi into the unlit street" (Christropher Hunt).2. To defeat decisively: The mayor was trounced in the election.3. To criticize severely: The play was trounced by reviewers.

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trounce

(traʊns) vb (tr) to beat or defeat utterly; thrash[C16: of unknown origin]

trounce

(traʊns)

v.t. trounced, trounc•ing. 1. to beat severely; thrash. 2. to defeat decisively. [1545–55] trounc′er, n.

trounce

Past participle: trounced
Gerund: trouncing

Imperative
trounce
trounce

Present
I trounce
you trounce
he/she/it trounces
we trounce
you trounce
they trounce

Preterite
I trounced
you trounced
he/she/it trounced
we trounced
you trounced
they trounced

Present Continuous
I am trouncing
you are trouncing
he/she/it is trouncing
we are trouncing
you are trouncing
they are trouncing

Present Perfect
I have trounced
you have trounced
he/she/it has trounced
we have trounced
you have trounced
they have trounced

Past Continuous
I was trouncing
you were trouncing
he/she/it was trouncing
we were trouncing
you were trouncing
they were trouncing

Past Perfect
I had trounced
you had trounced
he/she/it had trounced
we had trounced
you had trounced
they had trounced

Future
I will trounce
you will trounce
he/she/it will trounce
we will trounce
you will trounce
they will trounce

Future Perfect
I will have trounced
you will have trounced
he/she/it will have trounced
we will have trounced
you will have trounced
they will have trounced

Future Continuous
I will be trouncing
you will be trouncing
he/she/it will be trouncing
we will be trouncing
you will be trouncing
they will be trouncing

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been trouncing
you have been trouncing
he/she/it has been trouncing
we have been trouncing
you have been trouncing
they have been trouncing

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been trouncing
you will have been trouncing
he/she/it will have been trouncing
we will have been trouncing
you will have been trouncing
they will have been trouncing

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been trouncing
you had been trouncing
he/she/it had been trouncing
we had been trouncing
you had been trouncing
they had been trouncing

Conditional
I would trounce
you would trounce
he/she/it would trounce
we would trounce
you would trounce
they would trounce

Past Conditional
I would have trounced
you would have trounced
he/she/it would have trounced
we would have trounced
you would have trounced
they would have trounced

Thesaurus

Verb	1.	trounce - beat severely with a whip or rod; "The teacher often flogged the students"; "The children were severely trounced"flog, lash, lather, welt, whip, slash, strapbeat up, work over, beat - give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression; "Thugs beat him up when he walked down the street late at night"; "The teacher used to beat the students"flagellate, scourge - whip; "The religious fanatics flagellated themselves"leather - whip with a leather straphorsewhip - whip with a whip intended for horsesswitch - flog with or as if with a flexible rodcowhide - flog with a cowhidecat - beat with a cat-o'-nine-tailsbirch - whip with a birch twig
	2.	trounce - 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"beat, beat out, vanquish, crush, shelloutscore, outpoint - score more points than one's opponentswalk over - beat easily; "The local team walked over their old rivals for the championship"eliminate - remove from a contest or race; "The cyclist has eliminated all the competitors in the race"worst, whip, mop up, pip, rack up - defeat thoroughly; "He mopped up the floor with his opponents"whomp - beat overwhelminglyget the best, have the best, overcome - overcome, usually through no fault or weakness of the person that is overcome; "Heart disease can get the best of us"spreadeagle, rout, spread-eagle - defeat disastrouslyget the jump - be there first; "They had gotten the jump on their competitors"chicane, chouse, jockey, cheat, shaft, screw - defeat someone through trickery or deceitoutsmart, outwit, overreach, circumvent, outfox, beat - beat through cleverness and wit; "I beat the traffic"; "She outfoxed her competitors"outdo, outgo, outmatch, outperform, outstrip, surpass, exceed, surmount - be or do something to a greater degree; "her performance surpasses that of any other student I know"; "She outdoes all other athletes"; "This exceeds all my expectations"; "This car outperforms all others in its class"defeat, get the better of, overcome - win a victory over; "You must overcome all difficulties"; "defeat your enemies"; "He overcame his shyness"; "He overcame his infirmity"; "Her anger got the better of her and she blew up"surmount, master, overcome, subdue, get over - get on top of; deal with successfully; "He overcame his shyness"best, outdo, outflank, scoop, trump - get the better of; "the goal was to best the competition"outfight - to fight better than; get the better of; "the Rangers outfought the Maple Leafs"; "The French forces outfought the Germans"overmaster, overpower, overwhelm - overcome by superior forcecheckmate, mate - place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game; "Kasparov checkmated his opponent after only a few moves"immobilise, immobilize - make defenselessoutplay - excel or defeat in a game; "The Knicks outplayed the Lakers"drub, lick, clobber, cream, bat, thrash - beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight; "We licked the other team on Sunday!"
	3.	trounce - 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"call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, bawl out, berate, rebuke, reproof, scold, take to task, reprimand, call down, lambast, lambaste, lecture, remonstrate, jaw, ragcastigate, chasten, chastise, objurgate, correct - censure severely; "She chastised him for his insensitive remarks"brush down, tell off - reprimand; "She told the misbehaving student off"criticise, criticize, pick apart, knock - find fault with; express criticism of; point out real or perceived flaws; "The paper criticized the new movie"; "Don't knock the food--it's free"

trounce

verb defeat someone heavily or utterly, beat, thrash, slaughter (informal), stuff (slang), tank (slang), hammer (informal), crush, overwhelm, lick (informal), paste (slang), rout, walk over (informal), clobber (slang), run rings around (informal), wipe the floor with (informal), make mincemeat of, blow someone out of the water (slang), give someone a hiding (informal), drub, beat someone hollow (Brit. informal), give someone a pasting (slang) Australia trounced France by sixty points to four.

trounce

verbTo render totally ineffective by decisive defeat:annihilate, crush, drub, overpower, overwhelm, smash, steamroller, thrash, vanquish.Informal: massacre, wallop.Slang: clobber, cream, shellac, smear.

Translations

痛惩击

trounce

(trauns) verb to beat or defeat completely. Our football team was trounced. 痛擊 痛惩击