Trounce

Definition: Trounce

Trounce

Verb

1. Beat severely with a whip or rod; "The teacher often flogged the students"; "The children were severely trounced".

2. 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".

3. 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"; "check" is archaic.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "trounce" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Note: Trounce \Trounce\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Trounced; present participle verb or noun Trouncing.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Trounce

Disapprobation

Reprimand, chastise, castigate, lash, blow up, trounce, trim, laver la tete, overhaul; give it one, give it one finely; gibbet.

Punishment

Strike; deal a blow to, administer the lash, smite; slap, slap the face; smack, cuff, box the ears, spank, thwack, thump, beat, lay on, swinge, buffet; thresh, thrash, pummel, drub, leather, trounce, sandbag, baste, belabor; lace, lace one's jacket; dress, dress down, give a dressing, trim, warm, wipe, tund, cob, bang, strap, comb, lash, lick, larrup, wallop, whop, flog, scourge, whip, birch, cane, give the stick, switch, flagellate, horsewhip, bastinado, towel, rub down with an oaken towel, rib roast, dust one's jacket, fustigate, pitch into, lay about one, beat black and blue; beat to a mummy, beat to a jelly; give a black eye.

Crosswords: Trounce

Albanian

zhdëp (belabor, belabour, drub, lambaste, larrup, wallop, whop), shaj (abuse, ballyrag, berate, bullyrag, call names, carpet, castigate, chastise, chide, come down on, curse, dish it out, dress down, flay, inveigh, jaw, lay into, objurgate, offend, rag, rap, revile, scold, shake up, shout, shout at, swear, tell off, upbraid, vituperate), rrah (aim, assess, beat, beat up, castigate, cob, flail, flap, flicker, give a good hiding, give in, lambaste, larrup, lather, lay into, lick, mill, Pat, thrash, thresh, wallop, whop), dënoj (be exiled, castigate, censure, condemn, criminate, damn, declaim, delate, denounce, deprecate, discipline, doom, penalize, proscribe, punish, rap, reprehend, sentence). (various references)

Arabic 

‏هزم هزيمة قاسية (smear, thrash out), ‏هزم هزيمة شنيعة, ‏عاقب (administer, blister, castigate, chasten, chastise, correct, discipline, mete, paddle, penalize, punish, rap, recompense, strafe, suffer), ‏ضرب بغير إنقطاع (pelt), ‏جلد (belabour, belt, birch, curry, cut, drub, drubbing, endurance, flagellation, flog, flogging, fortitude, gladiatorial, hide, integument, lacing, lambaste, lash, lashing, leather, licking, pasting, patience, scourge, self control, skin, slash, slashing, stamina, sting, sufferance, switch, tan, thrash, thump, toleration, whip, whipping). (various references)

Bulgarian 

смазвам от бой (mangle), мъмря строго, бия жестоко (spifflicate), побеждавам (beat, conquer, defeat, down, fight down, foil, have, lace, lick, master, mop up, overcome, overmaster, overpower, overthrow, overturn, pip, polish off, prevail, scupper, thrash, triumph, vanquish, whip, whop, win, worst, zap). (various references)

Chinese 

殴�" (maul, Trounced, trouncing). (various references)

Czech

ztýrat, zbít (beat up, lick, thrash, wallop), vynadat. (various references)

Farsi 

سخت زدن (Belabor), سرزنش کردن (Berate, Blame, Calldown, Censure, Check, Chide, Haze, Rant, Reprehend, Reprimand, Reprove, Scold, Snub, Taunt, Twit, Upbraid, Wig), شکست دادن (Defeat, Drub, Floor, Outdo, Skunk, Smash, Smite, Vanquish, Worst), بسختی تنبیه کردن . (various references)

French

rosser, punir, battre � plate couture, écraser (trample down, tread). (various references)

German

verprügeln (bash, baste, batter, batter about, beat up, bludgeon, knock about, knock around, lambaste, pelt, slog, strap, thrash, thwack, to baste, to lambaste, to slog, to trounce, wallop). (various references)

Greek 

μαστιγώ (flog, horsewhip, lash, welt, whip), δέρνω (beat, beat up, beaten, churn, drub, ferule, flog, lambaste, lash, lick, scourge, shellac, spank, whip, whop). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"לקות (beat, belabour, flagellate, flog, horsewhip, lash, scourge, tan, whip). (various references)

Hungarian

elver (beat up, curry, drub, thrash, to batter about, to curry, to haze, to hide, to lace, to lay it on sy, to leather, to mill, to pepper, to piss away, to run through, to slosh, to thrash, to trounce, to wallop), elnáspángol (belabor, cudgel, Lam, larrup, to belabor, to belabour, to lace, to lay it on sy, to wallop, wallop). (various references)

Indonesian

menggasak (assault, attack, pilfer, rub hard, take by force), memukuli (beat, dash, drub, thrash). (various references)

Italian

percuotere (beat, belt, cuff, hit, knock, maul, strike, thrash, thwack, wallop). (various references)

Pig Latin

ouncetray

Portuguese

zurzir (thrash, welt), espancar (bat, beat, belabor, belabour, clobber, lambaste, larrup, lathe, lather, lay into, maltreat, maul, paste, pommel, quilt, spank, swinge, thresh, thwack, wallop, welt, whang, whop), censurar severamente, castigar severamente, açoitar (flap, flog, lash, leather, quirt, swinge, swish, thrash, whip). (various references)

Romanian

sancţiona (amerce, approbate, approve, punish, ratify, sanctify, sanction, sign), pedepsi (amerce, avenge, castigate, chasten, correct, discipline, penalize, punish, scourge, serve out, wreak), dojeni cu asprime, bate zdravãn (belabour). (various references)

Russian 

бить (baste, beat, beaten, belabour, buffet, catch, chastise, chime, club, drub, hit, kicked, kicking, knock, lambaste, larrup, lick, pound, pummel, run across, smash, strike, thrash, thwack, wallop, whop). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

potući (destroy, drub, outclass, outfight, scupper), izudarati (beat up, thrash, thwack), izbiti (beat, break out, burst in, burst out, erupt, lambaste, strike, thrash). (various references)

Spanish

zurrar (leather, thrash, to snarl, warm, welt), pegar (affix, attach, beat, beat up on, belt, catch, cement, fasten, give, glue, hang, have, hit, knock about, Lam, live through, paste, paste up, plug, post, pump, put up, roam, sew, sew on, slap, slosh, slug, smack, sock, stick, stick down, stick on, stick together, strike, swipe, tag on, take, thrash, tie on, touch, welt), fustigar (fustigate, lash, scathe, thrash, whip), derrotar a (inch out, lick), dar una paliza (beat, beat up, do over, lace in, Lam, lash, lay into, lick, put across, put over, take apart, tank, thrash, thump, work over), cascar (crack, shell out, thrash, whip), azotar (batter, birch, blow, cane, flail, flog, lash, lick, paddle, scourge, thrash, whip). (various references)

Swedish

slå (bang, bash, beat, bolt, buffet, cap, capture, cast, catch, crossbar, dash, defeat, dial, drive, flap, hit, hurt smb., hurtle, impinge, knock, lay, lick, mow, palpitate, pour, punch, ram, sit, slam, slap, slat, smash, smite, strike, stroke, tack, throw, warble, whang, whip), klå (cudgel, flog, itch, larrup, lick, scratch, skin, sting, thrash). (various references)

Turkish

yenmek (annihilate, bear down, bear the bell, beat, beat all hollow, best, break, carry away the bell, checkmate, circumvent, clobber, confound, conquer, cut out, defeat, discomfit, down, floor, get the better of, give a beating, knock out, land, lick, master, outbox, outclass, outdo, outgo, overpower, pip, prevail, skunk, slam, smash, subjugate, surmount, swamp, thrash, trim, triumph, vanquish, wallop, wear down, whelm, whip, whop, win over, wipe the floor with smb., worst), fırça atmak (berate, give smb. a roasting, give smb. a telling-off, give the stick, keelhaul, lam into, lambaste, rate, roast, sail into, slam), dayak atmak (bash up, baste, beat, chastise, clobber, cudgel, curry, drub, flog, give a thrashing, give smb. the works, give the stick, hide, Lam, larrup, lather, lay in, lay into, lick, pelt, punish, spifflicate, spiflicate, thrash, whop), dövmek (bash up, baste, batter, beat, beat out, beat up, belabor, belabour, Bray, bruise, cane, castigate, chastise, club, cudgel, drub, dust smb.'s jacket, flail, flog, forge, give a beating, give smb. a thrashing, give the stick, hammer, hide, knock about, knock around, Lam, lam into, lambaste, larrup, lather, lay in, lay into, lick, Mall, maul, pelt, pound, punish, scutch, slog, sock, spifflicate, spiflicate, swage, swinge, tan, thrash, thwack, wallop, whale, whip, whop), bozguna uğratmak (beat smb. hollow, put to flight, put to rout, rout, slaughter). (various references)

Ukrainian

суворо вичитувати, завдати поразки (best, checkmate), бити (bang, batter, beat, castigate, chastise, chime, cob, hit, lambaste, lay into, maul, sing out, souse, thump, towel, whop). (various references)

Welsh

cystwyo (castigate, chastise). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "trounce": trounced, trouncer, trouncers, trounces. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Trounce" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: creaunce, prounce, Roudnice, Rounce, rouncy, tonce, tortune, tounce, tounge, Trianco, Trijunct, tronc, tronce, trouc, trouce, trouncer, Trouncy, Trounsem, truance. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: cornute, counter, recount.

-1 letter: cornet, couter, tenour.

-2 letters: cento, centu, conte, cornu, count, court, crone, cruet, curet, cuter, eruct, noter, ounce, outer, outre, recon, recto, recut, rouen, route, tenor, toner, trone, truce, tuner.

-3 letters: cent, cero, cone, core, corn, cote, cunt, cure, curn, curt, cute, ecru, euro, note, once, rent, rote, roue, rout, rune, runt, tern, tone.

+1 letter: confuter, construe, cornuted, counters, courante, neurotic, nocturne, outrance, recounts, trounced, trouncer, trounces, unerotic.

+2 letters: centurion, confiture, confuters, congruent, construed, construes, consulter, continuer, contoured, corpulent, countered, countries, courantes, courtesan, cretinous, curbstone, encounter, introduce, mucronate, nectarous, neurotics, neutronic, nocturnes, nucleator, occurrent, outrances, overcount, raconteur, recontour, recounted, recounter, reduction, trouncers, truncheon, undercoat.

+3 letters: aeronautic, auctioneer, centurions, concurrent, confitures, conjecture, consulters, contexture, continuers, contribute, counteract, counterbid, countercry, countering, counterion, counterman, countermen, counterspy, countersue, countertop, countrymen, courantoes, courtesans, croqueting, curbstones, discounter, documenter, encounters, enunciator, eructation, introduced, introducer, introduces, neurotoxic, noncurrent, nucleators, occurrents, outscorned, overcounts, precaution, procumbent, quercitron, raconteurs, reconquest, recontours, recounters, recounting, recoupment, rediscount, reductions, rencounter, retouching, supertonic, surjection, truncheons, ulceration, uncorseted, undercoats, undercount, undercroft, undoctored, unescorted, unneurotic.