trouncev.¹

Brit.

/traʊns/, U.S.

/traʊns/

Forms: Also 1500s–1600s trounse, 1600s trownse, trownce.

Etymology: Of obscure origin; usually compared with Old French troncer , troncher , Cotgrave troncir , tronchir to cut, cut off a piece from, retrench, < tronce , tronche stump or stock of wood (14th cent. in Godefroy): compare tronc trunk n., and tronçon truncheon n. But the Old French and English verbs do not agree in sense. See also Eng. Dial. Dict.

†1.

a. transitive. To trouble, afflict, distress; to discomfit, harass. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > adversity > suffer (adversity or affliction) [verb (transitive)] > afflict

overharryeOE

aileOE

swencheOE

besetOE

traya1000

teenOE

to work (also do) (a person) woeOE

derve?c1225

grieve1297

harrya1300

noyc1300

travailc1300

to work (also do) annoyc1300

wrath14..

aggrievea1325

annoya1325

tribula1325

to hold wakenc1330

anguish1340

distrainc1374

wrap1380

strain1382

ermec1386

afflicta1393

cumbera1400

assayc1400

distressc1400

temptc1400

encumber1413

labour1437

infortune?a1439

stressa1450

trouble1489

arraya1500

constraina1500

attempt1525

misease1530

exercise1531

to hold or keep waking1533

try1539

to wring to the worse1542

pinch1548

affligec1550

trounce1551

oppress1555

inflict1566

overharl1570

strait1579

to make a martyr of1599

straiten1611

tribulatea1637

to put through the hoop(s)1919

snooter1923

the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being harassed > harass [verb (transitive)]

tawc893

ermec897

swencheOE

besetOE

bestandc1000

teenOE

baitc1175

grieve?c1225

war?c1225

noyc1300

pursuec1300

travailc1300

to work (also do) annoyc1300

tribula1325

worka1325

to hold wakenc1330

chase1340

twistc1374

wrap1380

cumbera1400

harrya1400

vexc1410

encumber1413

inquiet1413

molest?a1425

course1466

persecutec1475

trouble1489

sturt1513

hare1523

hag1525

hale1530

exercise1531

to grate on or upon1532

to hold or keep waking1533

infest1533

scourge1540

molestate1543

pinch1548

trounce1551

to shake upa1556

tire1558

moila1560

pester1566

importune1578

hunt1583

moider1587

bebait1589

commacerate1596

bepester1600

ferret1600

harsell1603

hurry1611

gall1614

betoil1622

weary1633

tribulatea1637

harass1656

dun1659

overharry1665

worry1671

haul1678

to plague the life out of1746

badger1782

hatchel1800

worry1811

bedevil1823

devil1823

victimize1830

frab1848

mither1848

to pester the life out of1848

haik1855

beplague1870

chevy1872

obsede1876

to get on ——1880

to load up with1880

tail-twist1898

hassle1901

heckle1920

snooter1923

hassle1945

to breathe down (the back of) (someone's) neck1946

to bust (a person's) chops1953

noodge1960

monster1967

1551 Bible (Matthew's) Judges iv. 15 But the Lorde trounsed [1611 discomfited] Sisara and all his charettes, and all hys hoste with the edge of y^e swerde, before Barak.

?1553 Respublica (1952) iii. iii. 23 Lorde Ihese Christe whan he was I pounst and I pilate was ner zo I trounst as we [sc. Ignoram people] have been of years Late.

1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 408/2 If any do speake against them, he is miserablye tossed & trounsed for his labour.

1646 J. Trapp Brief Comm. John ii. 16 The churchwarden of Ipswich was much trounced and troubled in the High-commission.

1655 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 1st Pt. 114 Josephs Mistresse first tries to draw him to gratifie her lust, that string breaking she hath another to trounce him and charge him.

b. intransitive. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > be painful [verb (intransitive)] > give pain

trounce1589

1589 Rare Triumphes Loue & Fortune iv. sig. D.iv^v Oh terrible tormentes that trounce in my toe.

2. To beat, thrash, belabour, cudgel; to beat by way of punishment, to flog.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > administer corporal punishment [verb (transitive)] > beat

threshOE

beatc1000

to lay on?c1225

chastise1362

rapa1400

dressc1405

lack?c1475

paya1500

currya1529

coil1530

cuff1530

baste1533

thwack1533

lick1535

firka1566

trounce1568

fight1570

course1585

bumfeage1589

feague1589

lamback1589

lambskin1589

tickle1592

thrash1593

lam1595

bumfeagle1598

comb1600

fer1600

linge1600

taw1600

tew1600

thrum1604

feeze1612

verberate1614

fly-flap1620

tabor1624

lambaste1637

feak1652

flog1676

to tan (a person's) hide1679

slipper1682

liquora1689

curry-comb1708

whack1721

rump1735

screenge1787

whale1790

lather1797

tat1819

tease1819

larrup1823

warm1824

haze1825

to put (a person) through a course of sprouts1839

flake1841

swish1856

hide1875

triangle1879

to give (a person or thing) gyp1887

soak1892

to loosen (a person's) hide1902

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > leap, spring, or jump [verb (intransitive)] > caper

leapc900

playOE

floxec1200

startlec1300

trancec1374

prancec1380

tripc1386

scoupa1400

prankc1450

gambol1508

frisk?1520

jeta1529

pract1568

trounce1568

trip1578

capriole1580

lavolta1590

linch1593

curvet1595

flisk1595

firk1596

caper1598

jaunce1599

risec1599

cabre1600

jaunt1605

skit1611

to cut a caper or capersa1616

tripudiate1623

insult1652

to fike and flinga1689

scamper1691

dance1712

pranklea1717

cavort1794

jinket1823

gambado1827

caracol1861

the world > movement > impact > striking > beating or repeated striking > beat [verb (transitive)] > specifically a person

to-beatc893

threshOE

bustc1225

to lay on or upon?c1225

berrya1250

to-bunea1250

touchc1330

arrayc1380

byfrapc1380

boxc1390

swinga1400

forbeatc1420

peal?a1425

routa1425

noddlea1450

forslinger1481

wipe1523

trima1529

baste1533

waulk1533

slip1535

peppera1550

bethwack1555

kembc1566

to beat (a person) black and blue1568

beswinge1568

paik1568

trounce1568

canvass1573

swaddle?1577

bebaste1582

besoop1589

bumfeage1589

dry-beat1589

feague1589

lamback1589

clapperclaw1590

thrash1593

belam1595

lam1595

beswaddle1598

bumfeagle1598

belabour1600

tew1600

flesh-baste1611

dust1612

feeze1612

mill1612

verberate1614

bethumpa1616

rebuke1619

bemaul1620

tabor1624

maula1627

batterfang1630

dry-baste1630

lambaste1637

thunder-thump1637

cullis1639

dry-banga1640

nuddle1640

sauce1651

feak1652

cotton1654

fustigate1656

brush1665

squab1668

raddle1677

to tan (a person's) hide1679

slam1691

bebump1694

to give (a person) his load1694

fag1699

towel1705

to kick a person's butt1741

fum1790

devel1807

bray1808

to beat (also scare, etc.) someone's daylights out1813

mug1818

to knock (a person) into the middle of next week1821

welt1823

hidea1825

slate1825

targe1825

wallop1825

pounce1827

to lay into1838

flake1841

muzzle1843

paste1846

looder1850

frail1851

snake1859

fettle1863

to do over1866

jacket1875

to knock seven kinds of —— out of (a person)1877

to take apart1880

splatter1881

to beat (knock, etc.) the tar out of1884

to —— the shit out of (a person or thing)1886

to do up1887

to —— (the) hell out of1887

to beat — bells out of a person1890

soak1892

to punch out1893

stoush1893

to work over1903

to beat up1907

to punch up1907

cream1929

shellac1930

to —— the bejesus out of (a person or thing)1931

duff1943

clobber1944

to fill in1948

to bash up1954

to —— seven shades of —— out of (a person or thing)1976

to —— seven shades out of (a person or thing)1983

beast1990

becurry-

fan-

1568 Newe Comedie Iacob & Esau ii. ii. sig. C.ij There was neuer none trounced as I shal trounce that elf.

1621 J. Molle tr. P. Camerarius Liuing Libr. ii. iv. 85 He tug'd and trownst his aduersarie.

1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. xxiii. 203 Flattered them with hopes of seeing a bailif trounced.

1820 Gentleman's Mag. 90 i. 412 The common provincial phrase of ‘I'll trounce you’, meaning to beat or bruise with a stick or fists.

1887 W. Besant World Went xxi. 169 One after another, they were tied up..and soundly trounced.

a. To inflict chastisement upon; to punish; also, to get the better of, defeat.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > punishment > [verb (transitive)]

threac897

tighta1000

beswinkc1175

punisha1325

chastise1362

paina1375

justifya1393

wage1412

reformc1450

chasten1526

thwart over thumba1529

chastifyc1540

amerce?1577

follow1579

to rap (a person) on the knuckles (also fingers)1584

finea1616

mulcta1620

fita1625

vindicate1632

trounce1657

reward1714

tawse1790

sort1815

to let (a person) have it1823

visit1836

to catch or get Jesse1839

to give, get goss1840

to have ita1848

to take (a person) to the woodshed1882

to give (one) snuff1890

soak1892

give1906

to weigh off1925

to tear down1938

zap1961

slap1968

the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > have or gain mastery or superiority over [verb (transitive)] > overcome or defeat

shendc893

overwinOE

overheaveOE

mate?c1225

to say checkmatea1346

vanquishc1366

stightlea1375

outrayc1390

to put undera1393

forbeat1393

to shave (a person's) beardc1412

to put to (also at, unto) the (also one's) worsec1425

adawc1440

supprisec1440

to knock downc1450

to put to the worsta1475

waurc1475

convanquish1483

to put out1485

trima1529

convince1548

foil1548

whip1571

evict1596

superate1598

reduce1605

convict1607

defail1608

cast1610

banga1616

evince1620

worst1646

conquer1655

cuffa1657

trounce1657

to ride down1670

outdo1677

routa1704

lurcha1716

fling1790

bowl1793

lick1800

beat1801

mill1810

to row (someone) up Salt River1828

defeat1830

sack1830

skunk1832

whop1836

pip1838

throw1850

to clean out1858

take1864

wallop1865

to sock it to1877

whack1877

to clean up1888

to beat out1893

to see off1919

to lower the boom on1920

tonk1926

clobber1944

ace1950

to run into the ground1955

1657 J. Howell Londinopolis 40 How Rich. the first trounced her for murthuring the Jews.

a1704 T. Brown Pocket-bk. Common Places in 3rd Vol. Wks. (1708) ii. 138 The Gods Neptune and Apollo, trounc'd Laomedon for cheating 'em of their Hire.

1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple III. xxvi. 352 We will set to and trounce that scoundrel of an uncle.

1859 J. R. Green Lett. (1901) 28 You honour a man..by condescending to an encounter, even though you trounce him.

1878 R. Browning Poets Croisic xlv Who chides..the unchilded monarch shall be trounced For irreligion.

b. To punish by legal action or process; to indict, to sue at law. Now dialect.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > action of courts in claims or grievances > carry on or institute (an action) [verb (transitive)] > sue or institute action against

pleada1325

implead1387

follow1389

pursue1454

process1493

to put in suit1495

to call (a person) unto the law?a1513

sue1526

suit1560

prosecute1579

to fetch a person over the hips1587

trounce1638

law1647

prosecute1656

action1734

to fetch law of1832

court1847

chicane1865

actionize1871

run1891

1638 J. Ford Fancies iv. 55 The Court shall trounce thee.

1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. iii. 234 I would so trounce her, and her Purse, I'ld make her kneel for bett'r or worse.

1681 J. Dryden Spanish Fryar iv. i. 45 I'll trounce you for offering to corrupt my Honesty.

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Trounc'd... Cast in Law.

1724 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (ed. 2) To Trounce,..to sue at Law.

1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Trounce, to punish by an indictment or information.

1818 T. Moore Fudge Family in Paris vi. 206 Who shall describe..Thy candour, when it falls to thee To help in trouncing for a libel?

1830 T. De Quincey Life R. Bentley in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 462/1 He trounced Colbatch, who was sentenced to pay 3s. 6d., together with 2s. 6d. arrears, and L.20 costs.

1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Trounce, to summon before a magistrate; to sue at law.

c. To defeat heavily at a sport. colloquial.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > winning, losing, or scoring > win, lose, or score [verb (transitive)] > win > defeat

overplayc1460

smother1676

lurch1678

outplay1702

thrash1789

defeat1830

spreadeagle1832

thresh1852

whitewash1867

blank1870

annihilate1886

nip1893

slam1907

plaster1919

skittle1919

rip1927

maul1928

demolish1938

massacre1940

trounce1942

hammer1948

murder1952

to shut out1952

zilch1957

zip1964

trip1974

1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §649/5 Defeat decisively,..trample (on), trounce, walk on [etc.].

1951 Sport 27 Jan. 3/1 He was omitted from the side trounced 4–0 at Reading.

1972 J. Mosedale Football v. 64 Green Bay teams had trounced AFL entries the previous two years.

4. To assail or attack with rebuke or abuse; to censure; to scold severely.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > rebuke or reprove [verb (transitive)] > severely

dressc1405

wipe1523

to take up1530

whip1530

to shake upa1556

trounce1607

castigatea1616

lasha1616

objurgate1616

thunderstrike1638

snub1672

drape1683

cut1737

rowa1798

score1812

to dress down1823

to pitch into ——1823

wig1829

to row (a person) up1838

to catch or get Jesse1839

slate1840

drop1853

to drop (down) to or on (to)1859

to give (a person) rats1862

to jump upon1868

to give (a person) fits1871

to give it to someone (pretty) stiff1880

lambaste1886

ruck1899

bollock1901

bawl1903

scrub1911

burn1914

to hang, draw, and quarter1930

to tear a strip off1940

to tear (someone) off a strip1940

brass1943

rocket1948

bitch1952

tee1955

fan-

1607 R. C. tr. H. Estienne World of Wonders 2 These learned Latin authors haue been trounced by these dangerously conceited and proud presumptuous censurers.

1673 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd ii, in Wks. (1776) II. 261 Had not Mr. Killigrew foreseen that they must..fall to dirt of themselves, he would ere this..have trounced the author.

1865 Star 6 Jan. He deals chiefly with the best-named folly and trounces it most severely.

1894 W. Besant Equal Woman 127 He very finely trounced the Public for daring to like these favourites.

Derivatives

trounced adj.

/traʊnst/

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > [adjective] > rebuked or scolded

ychid1387

forflitten1603

chidden1609

reproved1658

rated1808

blown-up1863

objurgated1867

trounced1898

zapped1962

1898 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 469/1 The howling of trounced sailors.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	trounce
释义	trouncev.¹ Brit. /traʊns/, U.S. /traʊns/ Forms: Also 1500s–1600s trounse, 1600s trownse, trownce. Etymology: Of obscure origin; usually compared with Old French troncer , troncher , Cotgrave troncir , tronchir to cut, cut off a piece from, retrench, < tronce , tronche stump or stock of wood (14th cent. in Godefroy): compare tronc trunk n., and tronçon truncheon n. But the Old French and English verbs do not agree in sense. See also Eng. Dial. Dict. †1. a. transitive. To trouble, afflict, distress; to discomfit, harass. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > suffer (adversity or affliction) [verb (transitive)] > afflict overharryeOE aileOE swencheOE besetOE traya1000 teenOE to work (also do) (a person) woeOE derve?c1225 grieve1297 harrya1300 noyc1300 travailc1300 to work (also do) annoyc1300 wrath14.. aggrievea1325 annoya1325 tribula1325 to hold wakenc1330 anguish1340 distrainc1374 wrap1380 strain1382 ermec1386 afflicta1393 cumbera1400 assayc1400 distressc1400 temptc1400 encumber1413 labour1437 infortune?a1439 stressa1450 trouble1489 arraya1500 constraina1500 attempt1525 misease1530 exercise1531 to hold or keep waking1533 try1539 to wring to the worse1542 pinch1548 affligec1550 trounce1551 oppress1555 inflict1566 overharl1570 strait1579 to make a martyr of1599 straiten1611 tribulatea1637 to put through the hoop(s)1919 snooter1923 the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being harassed > harass [verb (transitive)] tawc893 ermec897 swencheOE besetOE bestandc1000 teenOE baitc1175 grieve?c1225 war?c1225 noyc1300 pursuec1300 travailc1300 to work (also do) annoyc1300 tribula1325 worka1325 to hold wakenc1330 chase1340 twistc1374 wrap1380 cumbera1400 harrya1400 vexc1410 encumber1413 inquiet1413 molest?a1425 course1466 persecutec1475 trouble1489 sturt1513 hare1523 hag1525 hale1530 exercise1531 to grate on or upon1532 to hold or keep waking1533 infest1533 scourge1540 molestate1543 pinch1548 trounce1551 to shake upa1556 tire1558 moila1560 pester1566 importune1578 hunt1583 moider1587 bebait1589 commacerate1596 bepester1600 ferret1600 harsell1603 hurry1611 gall1614 betoil1622 weary1633 tribulatea1637 harass1656 dun1659 overharry1665 worry1671 haul1678 to plague the life out of1746 badger1782 hatchel1800 worry1811 bedevil1823 devil1823 victimize1830 frab1848 mither1848 to pester the life out of1848 haik1855 beplague1870 chevy1872 obsede1876 to get on ——1880 to load up with1880 tail-twist1898 hassle1901 heckle1920 snooter1923 hassle1945 to breathe down (the back of) (someone's) neck1946 to bust (a person's) chops1953 noodge1960 monster1967 1551 Bible (Matthew's) Judges iv. 15 But the Lorde trounsed [1611 discomfited] Sisara and all his charettes, and all hys hoste with the edge of y^e swerde, before Barak. ?1553 Respublica (1952) iii. iii. 23 Lorde Ihese Christe whan he was I pounst and I pilate was ner zo I trounst as we [sc. Ignoram people] have been of years Late. 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 408/2 If any do speake against them, he is miserablye tossed & trounsed for his labour. 1646 J. Trapp Brief Comm. John ii. 16 The churchwarden of Ipswich was much trounced and troubled in the High-commission. 1655 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 1st Pt. 114 Josephs Mistresse first tries to draw him to gratifie her lust, that string breaking she hath another to trounce him and charge him. b. intransitive. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > be painful [verb (intransitive)] > give pain trounce1589 1589 Rare Triumphes Loue & Fortune iv. sig. D.iv^v Oh terrible tormentes that trounce in my toe. 2. To beat, thrash, belabour, cudgel; to beat by way of punishment, to flog. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > administer corporal punishment [verb (transitive)] > beat threshOE beatc1000 to lay on?c1225 chastise1362 rapa1400 dressc1405 lack?c1475 paya1500 currya1529 coil1530 cuff1530 baste1533 thwack1533 lick1535 firka1566 trounce1568 fight1570 course1585 bumfeage1589 feague1589 lamback1589 lambskin1589 tickle1592 thrash1593 lam1595 bumfeagle1598 comb1600 fer1600 linge1600 taw1600 tew1600 thrum1604 feeze1612 verberate1614 fly-flap1620 tabor1624 lambaste1637 feak1652 flog1676 to tan (a person's) hide1679 slipper1682 liquora1689 curry-comb1708 whack1721 rump1735 screenge1787 whale1790 lather1797 tat1819 tease1819 larrup1823 warm1824 haze1825 to put (a person) through a course of sprouts1839 flake1841 swish1856 hide1875 triangle1879 to give (a person or thing) gyp1887 soak1892 to loosen (a person's) hide1902 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > leap, spring, or jump [verb (intransitive)] > caper leapc900 playOE floxec1200 startlec1300 trancec1374 prancec1380 tripc1386 scoupa1400 prankc1450 gambol1508 frisk?1520 jeta1529 pract1568 trounce1568 trip1578 capriole1580 lavolta1590 linch1593 curvet1595 flisk1595 firk1596 caper1598 jaunce1599 risec1599 cabre1600 jaunt1605 skit1611 to cut a caper or capersa1616 tripudiate1623 insult1652 to fike and flinga1689 scamper1691 dance1712 pranklea1717 cavort1794 jinket1823 gambado1827 caracol1861 the world > movement > impact > striking > beating or repeated striking > beat [verb (transitive)] > specifically a person to-beatc893 threshOE bustc1225 to lay on or upon?c1225 berrya1250 to-bunea1250 touchc1330 arrayc1380 byfrapc1380 boxc1390 swinga1400 forbeatc1420 peal?a1425 routa1425 noddlea1450 forslinger1481 wipe1523 trima1529 baste1533 waulk1533 slip1535 peppera1550 bethwack1555 kembc1566 to beat (a person) black and blue1568 beswinge1568 paik1568 trounce1568 canvass1573 swaddle?1577 bebaste1582 besoop1589 bumfeage1589 dry-beat1589 feague1589 lamback1589 clapperclaw1590 thrash1593 belam1595 lam1595 beswaddle1598 bumfeagle1598 belabour1600 tew1600 flesh-baste1611 dust1612 feeze1612 mill1612 verberate1614 bethumpa1616 rebuke1619 bemaul1620 tabor1624 maula1627 batterfang1630 dry-baste1630 lambaste1637 thunder-thump1637 cullis1639 dry-banga1640 nuddle1640 sauce1651 feak1652 cotton1654 fustigate1656 brush1665 squab1668 raddle1677 to tan (a person's) hide1679 slam1691 bebump1694 to give (a person) his load1694 fag1699 towel1705 to kick a person's butt1741 fum1790 devel1807 bray1808 to beat (also scare, etc.) someone's daylights out1813 mug1818 to knock (a person) into the middle of next week1821 welt1823 hidea1825 slate1825 targe1825 wallop1825 pounce1827 to lay into1838 flake1841 muzzle1843 paste1846 looder1850 frail1851 snake1859 fettle1863 to do over1866 jacket1875 to knock seven kinds of —— out of (a person)1877 to take apart1880 splatter1881 to beat (knock, etc.) the tar out of1884 to —— the shit out of (a person or thing)1886 to do up1887 to —— (the) hell out of1887 to beat — bells out of a person1890 soak1892 to punch out1893 stoush1893 to work over1903 to beat up1907 to punch up1907 cream1929 shellac1930 to —— the bejesus out of (a person or thing)1931 duff1943 clobber1944 to fill in1948 to bash up1954 to —— seven shades of —— out of (a person or thing)1976 to —— seven shades out of (a person or thing)1983 beast1990 becurry- fan- 1568 Newe Comedie Iacob & Esau ii. ii. sig. C.ij There was neuer none trounced as I shal trounce that elf. 1621 J. Molle tr. P. Camerarius Liuing Libr. ii. iv. 85 He tug'd and trownst his aduersarie. 1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. xxiii. 203 Flattered them with hopes of seeing a bailif trounced. 1820 Gentleman's Mag. 90 i. 412 The common provincial phrase of ‘I'll trounce you’, meaning to beat or bruise with a stick or fists. 1887 W. Besant World Went xxi. 169 One after another, they were tied up..and soundly trounced. 3. a. To inflict chastisement upon; to punish; also, to get the better of, defeat. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > [verb (transitive)] threac897 tighta1000 beswinkc1175 punisha1325 chastise1362 paina1375 justifya1393 wage1412 reformc1450 chasten1526 thwart over thumba1529 chastifyc1540 amerce?1577 follow1579 to rap (a person) on the knuckles (also fingers)1584 finea1616 mulcta1620 fita1625 vindicate1632 trounce1657 reward1714 tawse1790 sort1815 to let (a person) have it1823 visit1836 to catch or get Jesse1839 to give, get goss1840 to have ita1848 to take (a person) to the woodshed1882 to give (one) snuff1890 soak1892 give1906 to weigh off1925 to tear down1938 zap1961 slap1968 the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > have or gain mastery or superiority over [verb (transitive)] > overcome or defeat shendc893 overwinOE overheaveOE mate?c1225 to say checkmatea1346 vanquishc1366 stightlea1375 outrayc1390 to put undera1393 forbeat1393 to shave (a person's) beardc1412 to put to (also at, unto) the (also one's) worsec1425 adawc1440 supprisec1440 to knock downc1450 to put to the worsta1475 waurc1475 convanquish1483 to put out1485 trima1529 convince1548 foil1548 whip1571 evict1596 superate1598 reduce1605 convict1607 defail1608 cast1610 banga1616 evince1620 worst1646 conquer1655 cuffa1657 trounce1657 to ride down1670 outdo1677 routa1704 lurcha1716 fling1790 bowl1793 lick1800 beat1801 mill1810 to row (someone) up Salt River1828 defeat1830 sack1830 skunk1832 whop1836 pip1838 throw1850 to clean out1858 take1864 wallop1865 to sock it to1877 whack1877 to clean up1888 to beat out1893 to see off1919 to lower the boom on1920 tonk1926 clobber1944 ace1950 to run into the ground1955 1657 J. Howell Londinopolis 40 How Rich. the first trounced her for murthuring the Jews. a1704 T. Brown Pocket-bk. Common Places in 3rd Vol. Wks. (1708) ii. 138 The Gods Neptune and Apollo, trounc'd Laomedon for cheating 'em of their Hire. 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple III. xxvi. 352 We will set to and trounce that scoundrel of an uncle. 1859 J. R. Green Lett. (1901) 28 You honour a man..by condescending to an encounter, even though you trounce him. 1878 R. Browning Poets Croisic xlv Who chides..the unchilded monarch shall be trounced For irreligion. b. To punish by legal action or process; to indict, to sue at law. Now dialect. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > action of courts in claims or grievances > carry on or institute (an action) [verb (transitive)] > sue or institute action against pleada1325 implead1387 follow1389 pursue1454 process1493 to put in suit1495 to call (a person) unto the law?a1513 sue1526 suit1560 prosecute1579 to fetch a person over the hips1587 trounce1638 law1647 prosecute1656 action1734 to fetch law of1832 court1847 chicane1865 actionize1871 run1891 1638 J. Ford Fancies iv. 55 The Court shall trounce thee. 1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. iii. 234 I would so trounce her, and her Purse, I'ld make her kneel for bett'r or worse. 1681 J. Dryden Spanish Fryar iv. i. 45 I'll trounce you for offering to corrupt my Honesty. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Trounc'd... Cast in Law. 1724 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (ed. 2) To Trounce,..to sue at Law. 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Trounce, to punish by an indictment or information. 1818 T. Moore Fudge Family in Paris vi. 206 Who shall describe..Thy candour, when it falls to thee To help in trouncing for a libel? 1830 T. De Quincey Life R. Bentley in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 462/1 He trounced Colbatch, who was sentenced to pay 3s. 6d., together with 2s. 6d. arrears, and L.20 costs. 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Trounce, to summon before a magistrate; to sue at law. c. To defeat heavily at a sport. colloquial. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > winning, losing, or scoring > win, lose, or score [verb (transitive)] > win > defeat overplayc1460 smother1676 lurch1678 outplay1702 thrash1789 defeat1830 spreadeagle1832 thresh1852 whitewash1867 blank1870 annihilate1886 nip1893 slam1907 plaster1919 skittle1919 rip1927 maul1928 demolish1938 massacre1940 trounce1942 hammer1948 murder1952 to shut out1952 zilch1957 zip1964 trip1974 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §649/5 Defeat decisively,..trample (on), trounce, walk on [etc.]. 1951 Sport 27 Jan. 3/1 He was omitted from the side trounced 4–0 at Reading. 1972 J. Mosedale Football v. 64 Green Bay teams had trounced AFL entries the previous two years. 4. To assail or attack with rebuke or abuse; to censure; to scold severely. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > rebuke or reprove [verb (transitive)] > severely dressc1405 wipe1523 to take up1530 whip1530 to shake upa1556 trounce1607 castigatea1616 lasha1616 objurgate1616 thunderstrike1638 snub1672 drape1683 cut1737 rowa1798 score1812 to dress down1823 to pitch into ——1823 wig1829 to row (a person) up1838 to catch or get Jesse1839 slate1840 drop1853 to drop (down) to or on (to)1859 to give (a person) rats1862 to jump upon1868 to give (a person) fits1871 to give it to someone (pretty) stiff1880 lambaste1886 ruck1899 bollock1901 bawl1903 scrub1911 burn1914 to hang, draw, and quarter1930 to tear a strip off1940 to tear (someone) off a strip1940 brass1943 rocket1948 bitch1952 tee1955 fan- 1607 R. C. tr. H. Estienne World of Wonders 2 These learned Latin authors haue been trounced by these dangerously conceited and proud presumptuous censurers. 1673 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd ii, in Wks. (1776) II. 261 Had not Mr. Killigrew foreseen that they must..fall to dirt of themselves, he would ere this..have trounced the author. 1865 Star 6 Jan. He deals chiefly with the best-named folly and trounces it most severely. 1894 W. Besant Equal Woman 127 He very finely trounced the Public for daring to like these favourites. Derivatives trounced adj. /traʊnst/ ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > [adjective] > rebuked or scolded ychid1387 forflitten1603 chidden1609 reproved1658 rated1808 blown-up1863 objurgated1867 trounced1898 zapped1962 1898 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 469/1 The howling of trounced sailors. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022). trouncev.² Etymology: Variant of traunce at trance v.² Forms. chiefly regional. intransitive. = trance v.²; also transitive in causal sense. ΚΠ 1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet II. xi. 248 They behoved to trounce us away to be tried at Carlisle. 1824 J. Mactaggart Sc. Gallovidian Encycl. 166 The Prince of Darkness trounces through the world in the form of a black dog. 1887 Charity Organis. Rev. Nov. 416 The young woman refused to pay, and trounced off to a..hospital. Derivatives trouncing adj. ΚΠ 1566 T. Drant tr. Horace Medicinable Morall sig. Dvj In cytie, I must set vppon My golde bespangled mule, In deeper way, a trounsinge steede, Whome vneth ought can rule. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2020). < v.¹1551v.²1566
随便看	to take the place of to take the plain to take the pledge to take the plunge to take the ply to take the post to take the pulse of to take the pulses of to take the rag off to take the rag off someone to take the rag off something to take the rag off the bush to take the rap to take the register to take the repulse to take the rest to take the right hand of to take the right-hand file to take the righthand file to take the ring to take the risk to take the risks to take the road to take the road of to take the rough and the smooth

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