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trounce

  [trouns]
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–verb (used with object), trounced, trounc⋅ing.
1. to beat severely; thrash.
2. to punish.
3. to defeat decisively.
Origin:
1545–55; orig. uncert.

Related forms:
trouncer, noun
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trounce   (trouns)   
v.   trounced, trounc·ing, trounc·es

v.   tr.

  1. To thrash; beat.

  2. To defeat decisively.

v.   intr.
To censure something or someone forcefully: "I was out to trounce on every digression and indiscretion conducted (or should I say semiconducted) in this performance" (Robert Maxwell Stern).

[Origin unknown.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
trounce [trɑʊnts]

  1. tv.
    to beat someone; to outscore someone. (Sports.) : Western trounced Eastern for the tenth year in a row.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

trounce 
1551, "to trouble, afflict, harass," later "to beat, thrash" (1568), of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to M.Fr. troncer "to cut, cut off a piece from," from tronce "piece of timber," from O.Fr. tronc (see trunk).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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